Genus: Mesoproctus Dunlop, 1998 | Family: Thelyphonidae Blanchard, 1852 | Order: Uropygi Thorell, 1883

† Mesoproctus rowlandi Dunlop, 1998

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Mesoproctus rowlandi

MESOZOIC: Lower Cretaceous

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:265ef464-5c81-4dc2-9682-8fe131151707

Genus type of Mesoproctus Dunlop, 1998

Taxonomic references

Mesoproctus rowlandi

Dunlop, 1998b: 294, figs 1–2 original description
Dunlop and Martill, 2002: 331–332, figs 1b, 2b, 3a, 4a
Rowland, 2002: 198–199
Harvey, 2003c: 80
Santana, Pinheiro and Silva, 2024: 2, table 1

Distribution
Distribution table
Brazil (Ceará)
Type locality: Araripe Plateau, Ceará, Brazil (Crato Formation, Lower Cretaceous (Aptian)).

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Araripe Plateau -7.1 -39.7
Type repository
  • Holotype (Ulster Museum no. K28006)
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:11AB123F-E9A2-4E88-9513-E5E14BD3ECEE

References

Dunlop, J.A. (1998b). A fossil whipscorpion from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Journal of Arachnology 26: 291–295. -- Show included taxa

Dunlop, J.A. & Martill, D.M. (2002). The first whipspider (Arachnida: Amblypygi) and three new whipscorpions (Arachnida: Thelyphonida) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences 92: 325–334. -- 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

Rowland, J.M. (2002). Review of the South American whip scorpions (Thelyphonida: Arachnida). Amazoniana 17: 187–204. -- 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

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-02-26 New taxonomic reference entry Santana, Pinheiro and Silva, 2024