Strabopidae

Strabopidae
Temporal range: Cambrian
Fossil of Strabops thacheri.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
(unranked): Arachnomorpha
Order: †Strabopida
Hou & Bergström, 1997
Family: †Strabopidae
Gerhardt, 1932
Type species
†Strabops thacheri
Beecher, 1901
Genera

Strabopidae is the only family of the order Strabopida, a group of arachnomorphs arthropods.

The order Strabopida contains three valid genera and one doubtful, Khankaspis, Paleomerus, Parapaleomerus and Strabops, all assigned in the family Strabopidae.[1] Previously, it also contained the genera Caryon, Lemoneites and Neostrabops, but after a study, they were reassigned as a trilobite, a glyptocystitid echinoderm and a cheloniellid arthropod, respectively.[1]

Paleomeridae was also previously included as a family, but after the discovery of a fourth Paleomerus specimen and its study, it was considered that the family is redundant and that it should be abandoned.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Javier Ortega-Hernández, Simon J. Braddy, Štěpán Rak (9 March 2010). "Trilobite and xiphosuran affinities for putative aglaspidid arthropods Caryon and Drabovaspis, Upper Ordovician, Czech Republic". Lethaia. 43 (3): 427–431. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2010.00216.x.
  2. ↑ O. Erik Tetlie, Rachel A. Moore (2004). "A new specimen of Paleomerus hamiltoni (Arthropoda; Arachnomorpha)". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 94: 195–198. doi:10.1017/S0263593300000602.


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