Palaeophonus

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Palaeophonus
Fossil range: Early Devonian
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
(unranked) Protoscorpiones
Genus: Palaeophonus
Thorell & Lindström, 1884

Palaeophonus is an extinct genus of scorpion, one of the first forms known. It was virtually identical to modern scorpions.

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