Genus: Proschizomus Dunlop and Horrocks, 1996 | Family: Incertae sedis n/a, n/a | Order: Uropygi Thorell, 1883

† Proschizomus petrunkevitchi Dunlop and Horrocks, 1996

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Proschizomus petrunkevitchi

PALAEOZOIC: Upper Carboniferous

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:de70b4e2-020f-4bfb-aa67-18e6b700ea37

Genus type of Proschizomus Dunlop and Horrocks, 1996

Taxonomic references

Geralinura britannica

Pocock, 1911: 29–30, fig. 9, plate 1 fig. 3, plate 2 fig. 3 (misidentification, in part)
Petrunkevitch, 1913: 59 (misidentification, in part)
Petrunkevitch, 1949: 264–266, figs 157, 265 (misidentification, in part)
Dunlop and Horrocks, 1996b: 300, 301–302, figs 1, 4, 7–16

Prothelyphonus britannicus (Pocock):

Petrunkevitch, 1953: 97–98, figs 97, 98, 178 (misidentification, in part)
Petrunkevitch, 1955a: 120, fig. 85(5) (misidentification, in part)
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)

Proschizomus petrunkevitchi

Dunlop and Horrocks, 1996b: 305, figs 2–3, 5, 17–24
Harvey, 2003c: 80
Tetlie and Dunlop, 2008: 311, fig. 6.6
Santana, Pinheiro and Silva, 2024: 2, table 1

Distribution
Distribution table
UK
Type locality: Shipley Claypit, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom (Upper Carboniferous).

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Ilkeston 52.966666 -1.3
Type repository
  • Holotype (BMNH I. 7921); Paratypes: 1 (BMNH 31265)
Zoobank LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:34336F26-76DE-48B2-A6FA-7F9B6774BCFE

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

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

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