Pulmonoscorpius

Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis is an extinct species of giant scorpion[1] that lived during the Viséan age of the Carboniferous period.

Pulmonoscorpius
Temporal range: Visean
~338 Ma
Artist's rendition of Pulmonoscorpius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Family: †Centromachidae
Genus: †Pulmonoscorpius
Jeram, 1994
Species:
†P. kirktonensis
Binomial name
†Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis
Jeram, 1994

Taxonomy

Its fossils were found at East Kirkton Quarry, West Lothian in Scotland. The diet of Pulmonoscorpius is not known directly, but it is probable that it preyed on smaller arthropods, and small tetrapods.[2]

References
  1. Andrew J. Jeram (1998). "Phylogeny, classification and evolution of Silurian and Devonian scorpions". In Paul A. Selden (ed.). Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Edinburgh 1997 (PDF). British Arachnological Society. pp. 17–31. ISBN 0-9500093-2-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-25.
  2. Jennifer A. Clack (2002). "East Kirkton and the roots of the modern family tree". Gaining Ground: the Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods. Life of the past. Indiana University Press. pp. 212–233. ISBN 978-0-253-34054-2.
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