Strabopidae

Strabopidae is the only family of the order Strabopida, a group of arachnomorph arthropods.

Strabopidae
Temporal range: Cambrian
Fossil of Strabops thacheri.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
(unranked):
Arachnomorpha
Order:
†Strabopida

Hou & Bergström, 1997
Family:
†Strabopidae

Gerhardt, 1932
Type species
†Strabops thacheri
Beecher, 1901
Genera

The order Strabopida contains three valid genera and one doubtful, Khankaspis, Paleomerus, Parapaleomerus and Strabops, all assigned in the family Strabopidae.[1] Previously, it also contained the genera Caryon, Lemoneites and Neostrabops, but after a study, they were reassigned as a trilobite, a glyptocystitid echinoderm and a cheloniellid arthropod, respectively.[1]

Paleomeridae was also previously included as a family, but after the discovery of a fourth Paleomerus specimen and its study, Paleomeridae was synonymized into Strabopidae.[2]

References
  1. Javier Ortega-Hernández; Simon J. Braddy; Štěpán Rak (9 March 2010). "Trilobite and xiphosuran affinities for putative aglaspidid arthropods Caryon and Drabovaspis, Upper Ordovician, Czech Republic". Lethaia. 43 (3): 427–431. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2010.00216.x.
  2. O. Erik Tetlie; Rachel A. Moore (2004). "A new specimen of Paleomerus hamiltoni (Arthropoda; Arachnomorpha)". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 94 (3): 195–198. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.717.1248. doi:10.1017/S0263593300000602.


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