Waeringoscorpio is a fossil genus of scorpions in the family Proscorpiidae. Species of this genus were discovered in Germany and lived during the Devonian period (411–408 Ma).[1][2] Waeringoscorpio is the only known genus of scorpion to show gill-like features.[3]
| Waeringoscorpio Temporal range:
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| Life restoration of W. westerwaldensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Scorpiones |
| Family: | †Proscorpiidae |
| Genus: | †Waeringoscorpio Størmer, 1970 |
| Type species | |
| Waeringoscorpio hefteri Størmer, 1970
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List of species
editThere are two accepted species:[4]
- † Waeringoscorpio hefteri Størmer, 1970
- † Waeringoscorpio westerwaldensis Poschmann, Dunlop, Kamenz & Scholtz, 2008
References
edit- ^ "✝Waeringoscorpio". mindat.org.
- ^ Størmer L. (1970) Arthropods from the Lower Devonian (Lower Emsian) of Alken an der Mosel, Germany. Part 1: Arachnida, Senckenbergiana Lethaea 51 4, 335-369
- ^ Markus Poschmann, Jason A Dunlop, Carsten Kamenz, Gerhard Scholtz (December 2008). "The Lower Devonian scorpion Waeringoscorpio and the respiratory nature of its filamentous structures, with the description of a new species from the Westerwald area, Germany".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Dunlop, J.A.; Penney, D.; Jekel, D. (2023), "A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives, version 23.5" (PDF), World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-03-31