Opsieobuthus is an extinct genus of centromachid scorpion. The type species O. pottsvillensis was named from the late Carboniferous of Clay City, Indiana.[1] A second species ?O. tungeri was tentatively assigned to the genus from the Early Permian Chemnitz petrified forest in Germany.[2]

Opsieobuthus
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous-Early Permian, Pennsylvanian–Sakmarian
Holotypes (A-B) and paratypes (C-D) of O. tungeri
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Family: Centromachidae
Genus: Opsieobuthus
Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986
Type species
Opsieobuthus pottsvillensis
Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986[1]
Species
  • O. pottsvillensis Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986
  • O. tungeri Dunlop et al. 2016
An artist's illustration of O. tungeri at the mouth of its burrow

References

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  1. ^ a b Kjellesvig-Waering, E. N. (1986). "A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world". Palaeontographica Americana. 55: 1–287.
  2. ^ Dunlop, Jason A.; Legg, David A.; Selden, Paul A.; Fet, Victor; Schneider, Joerg W.; Rößler, Ronny (2016). "Permian scorpions from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16 (1): 72. doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0634-z. PMC 4823912. PMID 27056633.
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