| Opsieobuthus Temporal range: Late Carboniferous-Early Permian, | |
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| Holotypes (A-B) and paratypes (C-D) of O. tungeri | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Scorpiones |
| Family: | †Centromachidae |
| Genus: | †Opsieobuthus Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986 |
| Type species | |
| †Opsieobuthus pottsvillensis Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986[1] | |
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Opsieobuthus is an extinct genus of centromachid scorpion. The type species O. pottsvillensis was named from the late Carboniferous of Clay City, Indiana.[1] A second species ?O. tungeri was tentatively assigned to the genus from the Early Permian Chemnitz petrified forest in Germany.[2]
An artist's illustration of O. tungeri at the mouth of its burrow
References
- 1 2 Kjellesvig-Waering, E. N. (1986). "A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world". Palaeontographica Americana. 55: 1–287.
- ↑ Dunlop, Jason A.; Legg, David A.; Selden, Paul A.; Fet, Victor; Schneider, Joerg W.; Rößler, Ronny (2016). "Permian scorpions from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16 (1): 72. doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0634-z. PMC 4823912. PMID 27056633.
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