Graeophonus
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| Graeophonus Fossil range: Carboniferous |
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| Graeophonus anglicus Pocock, 1911 |
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| Graeophonus carbonarius (Scudder, 1876) |
Graeophonus is an extinct genus of tailless whip scorpion. It has not been found a place in a family yet.
G. anglicus was found in Europe, G. carbonarius was originally described as Libellula carbonaria in 1876. It has been found in North America.
These forms resemble recent forms of amblypygids.
[edit] References
- Taxonomic information
- Scudder, S.H. (1876). A century of Orthoptera. Decade VI. Forficulariae (North America). Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 18:257-264
[edit] Further reading
- Zhou, G. (2003). A redescription of the whipspider Graeophonus anglicus.[1]
- Dunlop, J.A. (1994). An Upper Carboniferous amblypygid from the Writhlington Geological Nature Reserve. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 105:245-250. [2]
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