Opsieobuthus
Opsieobuthus | |
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Reconstruction | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Scorpiones |
Family: | Buthidae |
Genus: | Opsieobuthus Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986 |
Type species | |
Opsieobuthus pottsvillensis Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986[1] | |
Species | |
?O. tungeri Dunlop et al. 2016 |
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An artist's illustration of O. tungeri at the mouth of its burrow
Opsieobuthus is an extinct genus of buthid scorpion from the Chemnitz petrified forest in Germany. It was alive during the Permian period in Germany (~291-280 ma). Two species are currently known: O. pottsvillensis and O. tungeri.[2]
References
- ↑ 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). doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0634-z.
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