Eotrogulus is an extinct genus of harvestmen known from the Carboniferous fossil record. The genus is the only member of the family Eotrogulidae and contains one species Eotrogulus fayoli. Eotrogulus was found in the Coal Measures of Commentry in northern France, together with Nemastomoides elaveris. Eotrogulus was previously thought to be a trigonotarbid.[1]
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| Family: | Eotrogulidae Petrunkevitch, 1955
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| Genus: | Eotrogulus Thevenin, 1901
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| Species: | E. fayoli
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| Eotrogulus fayoli Thevenin, 1901
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Footnotes
edit- ^ Dunlop, Jason A. (2007): Paleontology. In: Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 255
References
edit- 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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