Palaeocharinus is a genus of extinct trigonotarbid arachnids known from the Devonian of western Europe. The genus was first found and described in the Rhynie chert in the 1920s by Arthur Stanley Hirst and S. Maulik.[1][2][3] The family to which the genus belongs may be paraphyletic.[4]
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| Palaeocharinus rhyniensis life restoration at MUSE - Science Museum in Trento | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | †Trigonotarbida |
| Family: | †Palaeocharinidae |
| Genus: | †Palaeocharinus Hirst, 1923 |
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| Palaeocharinus rhyniensis Hirst, 1923
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Species
edit- Palaeocharinus calmani (Hirst, 1923) – Early Devonian, Scotland
- Palaeocharinus hornei (Hirst, 1923) – Early Devonian, Scotland
- Palaeocharinus kidstoni (Hirst, 1923) – Early Devonian, Scotland
- Palaeocharinus rhyniensis (Hirst, 1923) – Early Devonian, Scotland
- Palaeocharinus scourfieldi (Hirst, 1923) – Early Devonian, Scotland[5]
- Palaeocharinus tuberculatus (Fayers, Dunlop & Trewin, 2005) – Early Devonian, Scotland[6]
References
edit- ^ Selden, Paul; Nudds, John (2012). Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems. Academic Press. p. 85. ISBN 9780124046290.
- ^ B.B. Rohdendorf; Donald R. Davis, eds. (1991). Fundamentals of Paleontology. Vol. 9. Arthropoda — Tracheata and Chelicerata. Vol. v 9. Smithsonian Institution Libraries and The National Science Foundation. pp. 737–740.
- ^ Garwood, Russell J.; Dunlop, Jason (July 2014). "The walking dead: Blender as a tool for paleontologists with a case study on extinct arachnids". Journal of Paleontology. 88 (4): 735–746. doi:10.1666/13-088. ISSN 0022-3360. Retrieved 2015-07-21.
- ^ Jones, Fiona; Dunlop, Jason A.; Friedman, Matthew; Garwood, Russell J. (2014). "Trigonotarbus johnsoni Pocock, 1911, revealed by X-ray computed tomography, with a cladistic analysis of the extinct trigonotarbid arachnids". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 172 (1): 49–70. doi:10.1111/zoj.12167.
- ^ Petrunkevitch, Alexander (1953). Paleozoic and Mesozoic Arachnida of Europe. Vol. 53. Geological Society of America. p. 71. ISBN 9780813710532.
- ^ "Palaeocharinus tuberculatus". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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