Pseudoniscus

Pseudoniscus
Temporal range: Silurian
Pseudoniscus aculeatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Family: Pseudoniscidae
Genus: Pseudoniscus
Nieszkowski, 1859
Species
  • P. aculeatus
  • P. clarkei
  • P. falcatus
  • P. rooselveti
Synonyms

Neolimulus Woodward, 1868

Pseudoniscus is an extinct genus of the clade Planaterga. The genus contains four species, P. aculeatus, P. clarkei, P. falcatus and P. rooselveti, from the Silurian of Canada, Estonia, Scotland and United States.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Dunlop, J. A., Penney, D. & Jekel, D. 2015. A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 16.0 http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/resources/fossils/Fossils16.0.pdf (PDF).


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