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Extinct genus of spiders
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]
Species
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
^ 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 .