Eotrogulidae

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Eotrogulidae
Fossil range: Carboniferous
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Suborder: Dyspnoi
Superfamily: Troguloidea
Family: Eotrogulidae
Petrunkevitch, 1955
Genus: Eotrogulus
Thevenin, 1901
Species: E. fayoli
Diversity
1 species
Binomial name
Eotrogulus fayoli
Thevenin, 1901

The Eotrogulidae are a family of fossil harvestmen with a single described species from the Carboniferous. Eotrogulus fayoli was found in the Coal Measures of Commentry in northern France, together with Nemastomoides elaveris (Nemastomoididae). At one stage E. fayoli was erroneously thought to be a trigonotarbid.[1]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Dunlop, Jason A. (2007): Paleontology. In: Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 255

[edit] References

  • Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog: Eotrogulidae
  • Thevenin, A. (1901): Sur la découverte d'arachnides dans le terrain houiller de Commentry. Bull Soc Géol. Fr. 4(1): 605-611.
  • Petrunkevitch, A.I. (1955): Arachnida. pp. 42-162 in Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology, part P. Arthropoda 2 (R.C. Moore, ed.). Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.
  • Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-02343-9
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