Weinbergina
Weinbergina is a genus of prosomapod, a clade of chelicerate arthropods. Fossils of the single and type species, W. opitzi, have been discovered in deposits of the Devonian period in the Hunsrück Slate, Germany. Weinbergina used to be the type genus of the family Weinberginidae, but it is now considered defunct.[1][2]
| Weinbergina | |
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| Fossil of W. opitzi, Naturmuseum Senckenberg | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Clade: | Euchelicerata |
| Clade: | Prosomapoda |
| Genus: | †Weinbergina Richter & Richter, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| †Weinbergina opitzi Richter & Richter, 1929 | |
References
- Dunlop, J. A.; Penney, D.; Jekel, D. (2020). "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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