Pseudoniscidae
Pseudoniscidae is an extinct family of chelicerates that lived in the Silurian. Pseudoniscidae is classified inside the clade Planaterga, and is composed by two genera, Cyamocephalus and Pseudoniscus (the type genus).[1][2]
Pseudoniscidae | |
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Restoration of Pseudoniscus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Clade: | Prosomapoda |
Clade: | Planaterga |
Family: | †Pseudoniscidae Packard, 1886 |
Type species | |
†Pseudoniscus aculeatus Nieszkowski, 1859 | |
Genera | |
References
- Dunlop, J. A.; Penney, D.; Jekel, D. (2018). "A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives" (PDF). World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. pp. 1–296.
- Lamsdell, James C. (2013). "Revised systematics of Palaeozoic 'horseshoe crabs' and the myth of monophyletic Xiphosura". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 167 (1): 1–27. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00874.x. ISSN 0024-4082.
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