Opsieobuthus

Opsieobuthus; Temporal range: Late Carboniferous-Early Permian, Pennsylvanian–Sakmarian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Holotypes (A-B) and paratypes (C-D) of O. tungeri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Scorpiones
Family:	†Centromachidae
Genus:	†Opsieobuthus; Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986
Type species
	†Opsieobuthus pottsvillensis; Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986
Species
	†O. pottsvillensis Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986; †O. tungeri Dunlop et al. 2016;

Opsieobuthus is an extinct genus of centromachid scorpion. The type species O. pottsvillensis was named from the late Carboniferous of Clay City, Indiana.^[1] A second species ?O. tungeri was tentatively assigned to the genus from the Early Permian Chemnitz petrified forest in Germany.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Kjellesvig-Waering, E. N. (1986). "A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world". Palaeontographica Americana. 55: 1–287.
^ Dunlop, Jason A.; Legg, David A.; Selden, Paul A.; Fet, Victor; Schneider, Joerg W.; Rößler, Ronny (2016). "Permian scorpions from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16 (1): 72. doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0634-z. PMC 4823912. PMID 27056633.

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[Germany1908-1] Kjellesvig-Waering, E. N. (1986). "A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world". Palaeontographica Americana. 55: 1–287.

[2] Dunlop, Jason A.; Legg, David A.; Selden, Paul A.; Fet, Victor; Schneider, Joerg W.; Rößler, Ronny (2016). "Permian scorpions from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16 (1): 72. doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0634-z. PMC 4823912. PMID 27056633.

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