Gigantoscorpio

Gigantoscorpio
Temporal range: Visean, 345.0–342.8 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Chelicerata
Class:
Arachnida
Order:
Scorpiones
Family:
†Gigantoscorpionidae
Genus:
†Gigantoscorpio

Species:
†G. willsi
Binomial name
†Gigantoscorpio willsi
Størmer, 1963[1]

Gigantoscorpio willsi is an extinct species of scorpion[2][3] which lived between 345.0 million and 342.8 million years ago, during the Visean age of the Carboniferous.[4] Its type specimen is BMNH In. 42706a,b, In. 42707, which is a 3D body fossil of its exoskeleton found near modern-day United Kingdom.[5] It is thought to have grown up to around 40 cm (16 in) long,[6] but later study estimated its total length about 24 cm (9.4 in). [7]

References

  1. ^ a b Størmer, Leif (1963). Gigantoscorpio willsi – A new scorpion from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland and its associated preying microorganisms. Oslo University Press.
  2. ^ "Gigantoscorpio willsi - Overview - Encyclopedia of Life". Encyclopedia of Life.
  3. ^ "Gigantoscorpio willsi". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  4. ^ "The Paleobiology Database".
  5. ^ "Fossilworks: Gigantoscorpio".
  6. ^ Kjellesvig-Waering, Erik N. (1972). "Brontoscorpio anglicus: A Gigantic Lower Paleozoic Scorpion from Central England". Journal of Paleontology. 46 (1): 39–42. ISSN 0022-3360. JSTOR 1302906.
  7. ^ Kjellesvig-Waering, E. N. (1986). "A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world". Palaeontographica Americana. 55: 1–287.
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