Arachnida - Scorpiones

Full reference: R. W. Gess. 2013. The earliest record of terrestrial animals in Gondwana: a scorpion from the Famennian (Late Devonian) Witpoort Formation of South Africa. African Invertebrates 54:373-379

Parent taxon: Scorpiones according to R. W. Gess 2013

Sister taxa: Allopalaeophonoidea, Archaeoctonoidea, Bilobosternina, Branchioscorpionina, Brontoscorpio, Eramoscorpius, Gymnoscorpius, Holosternina, Hubeiscorpio, Liassoscorpionidae, Liassoscorpionides, Lobosternina, Meristosternina, Mesoscorpionina, Orthosternina, Palaeomachus, Palaeophonus lightbodyi, Palaeotrilineatidae, Permomatveevia, Proscorpiidae, Titanoscorpio, Wattisonia

Subtaxa: Gondwanascorpio emzantsiensis

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Type: Gondwanascorpio emzantsiensis

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Waterloo Farm (Devonian of South Africa)

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