Gigantoscorpionidae

Gigantoscorpionidae is an extinct family of scorpions that lived between 383.7 million and 342.8 million years ago, during the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. The family is the only member of the superfamily Gigantoscorpionoidea.[2]

Gigantoscorpionidae
Temporal range: Devonian–Carboniferous, 383.7–342.8 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Chelicerata
Class:
Arachnida
Order:
Scorpiones
Suborder:
†Holosternina
Superfamily:
†Gigantoscorpionoidea

Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986[1]
Family:
†Gigantoscorpionidae

Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986[1]
Genera
Synonyms

†Petaloscorpionidae Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986

Genera

The family contains two genera:

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References
  1. Kjellesvig-Waering, E. N. (1986). "A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world". Palaeontographica Americana. 55: 1–287.
  2. Dunlop, J. A.; Penney, D.; Jekel, D. (2018). "A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives" (PDF). The world spider catalog, version 18.5. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2018-03-24.


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