Opsieobuthus
Extinct genus of scorpions
Opsieobuthus Temporal range: Late Carboniferous-Early Permian, Pennsylvanian–Sakmarian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Holotypes (A-B) and paratypes (C-D) of O. tungeri | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Scorpiones |
Family: | †Centromachidae |
Genus: | †Opsieobuthus Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986 |
Type species | |
†Opsieobuthus pottsvillensis Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986[1] | |
Species | |
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Opsieobuthus is an extinct genus of centromachid scorpion. The type species O. pottsvillensis was named from the late Carboniferous of Clay City, Indiana.[1] A second species ?O. tungeri was tentatively assigned to the genus from the Early Permian Chemnitz petrified forest in Germany.[2]
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References
- ^ a b Kjellesvig-Waering, E. N. (1986). "A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world". Palaeontographica Americana. 55: 1–287.
- ^ Dunlop, Jason A.; Legg, David A.; Selden, Paul A.; Fet, Victor; Schneider, Joerg W.; Rößler, Ronny (2016). "Permian scorpions from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16 (1): 72. doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0634-z. PMC 4823912. PMID 27056633.
External links
Media related to Opsieobuthus at Wikimedia Commons
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