Genus: Geralinura Scudder, 1884 | Family: Incertae sedis n/a, n/a | Order: Uropygi Thorell, 1883

† Geralinura britannica Pocock, 1911

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Geralinura britannica

PALAEOZOIC: Upper Carboniferous

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:c505996d-323d-4e74-9335-e66fb0b698cf

Taxonomic references

Geralinura britannica

Pocock, 1911: 29–30, fig. 9, plate 1 fig. 3, plate 2 fig. 3 original description
Petrunkevitch, 1913: 59 (misidentification, in part; see Proschizomus petrunkevitchi Dunlop and Horrocks)
Werner, 1935a: 462, fig. 164
Millot, 1949c: n/a, fig. 317
Petrunkevitch, 1949: 264–266, figs 157, 265 (misidentification, in part; see Proschizomus petrunkevitchi Dunlop and Horrocks)
Dunlop and Horrocks, 1996b: 300, 301–302, figs 1, 4, 7–16
Harvey, 2003c: 79
Tetlie and Dunlop, 2008: 310, fig. 6.4
Santana, Pinheiro and Silva, 2024: 2, table 2

Prothelyphonus britannicus (Pocock):

Petrunkevitch, 1953: 97–98, figs 97–98, 178 (misidentification, in part; see Proschizomus petrunkevitchi Dunlop and Horrocks)
Petrunkevitch, 1955a: 120 (misidentification, in part; see Proschizomus petrunkevitchi Dunlop and Horrocks)
Dubinin, 1962: n/a, fig. 1263
Laurentiaux-Vieira and Laurentiaux, 1963: 25, fig. 2
Brauckmann and Koch, 1983: n/a, fig. 5 (misidentification, in part; see Proschizomus petrunkevitchi Dunlop and Horrocks)

Distribution
Distribution table
China (Chihli) (doubtful see Dunlop and Horrocks, 1996b)
UK
Type locality: Coseley, near Dudley, Dudley Borough, England, United Kingdom (Upper Carboniferous).

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Coseley 52.55 -2.083333
Type repository
    N/A
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:E7162178-C0FC-4EB1-AE49-AFBDF2B02C6D

References

Brauckmann, C. & Koch, L. (1983). Prothelyphonus naufragus n. sp., ein neuer Geisselskorpion [Arachnida: Thelyphonida: Thelyphonidae] aus dem Namurium (unteres Ober-Karbon) von West-Deutschland. Entomologica Germanica 9: 63–74. -- Show included taxa

Dubinin, V.B. (1962). [Chelicerophora]. In: Rodendorf, B.B. (ed.) [Fundamentals of paleontology] Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow: 375–530. -- Show included taxa

Dunlop, J.A. & Horrocks, C.A. (1996b). A new Upper Carboniferous whip scorpion (Arachnida: Uropygi: Thelyphonida) with a revision of the British Carboniferous Uropygi. Zoologischer Anzeiger 234: 293–306. -- Show included taxa

Harvey, M.S. (2003c). Catalogue of the smaller arachnid orders of the world: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. -- Show included taxa

Laurentiaux-Vieira, F. & Laurentiaux, D. (1963). Sur quelques restes nouveaux d'Arachnides du terrain houiller. Annales de la Société Geologique du Nord 83: 23–29. -- Show included taxa

Millot, J. (1949c). Ordre des Uropyges. In: Grassé, P.-P. (ed.) Traité de zoologie Masson, Paris 6: 533–562. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1913). A monograph of the terrestrial Palaeozoic Arachnida of North America. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 18: 1–137. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1949). A study of Palaeozoic Arachnida. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 37: 69–315. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1953). Paleozoic and Mesozoic Arachnida of Europe. Memoirs of the Geological Society of America 53: i–xi, 1–128. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1955a). Arachnida. In: Moore, R.C. (ed.) Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. P, Arthropoda University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 2: 42–162. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R.I. (1911). A monograph of the terrestrial Carboniferous Arachnida of Great Britain. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society 64: 1–84. -- Show included taxa

Tetlie, O.E. & Dunlop, J.A. (2008). Geralinura carbonaria (Arachnida; Uropygi) from Mazon Creek, Illinois, USA, and the origin of subchelate pedipalps in whip scorpions. Journal of Paleontology 82: 299–312. doi: http://doi.org/10.1666/06-138.1 -- Show included taxa

Werner, F. (1935a). Klasse: Arachnoidea, Spinnentiere. Pedipalpen. In: Bronns, H.G. (ed.) Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 5(IV)(8)(3): 317–490. -- Show included taxa

Santana, W., Pinheiro, A.P. & Silva, T.A. (2024). Description of a new fossil Thelyphonida (Arachnida, Uropygi) and further record of Cratosolpuga wunderlichi Selden, in Selden and Shear, 1996 (Arachnida, Solifugae) from Crato Formation (Aptian/Albian), Araripe Basin, Brazil. PeerJ: 1-20. doi: 10.7717/peerj.16670 -- Show included taxa

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2024-02-26 New taxonomic reference entry Santana, Pinheiro and Silva, 2024