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Issue: Vol. 5396 No. 1: 29 Dec. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-12-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5396.1.17
Page range: 124-130
Abstract views: 128
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New material of Cretaceoushormiops Lourenço from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Arachnida: Scorpiones: Protoischnuridae)

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing 210008; China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100049; China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing 210008; China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100049; China; School of Earth Sciences; University of Bristol; Life Sciences Building; Tyndall Avenue; Bristol; BS8 1TQ; United Kingdom
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing 210008; China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100049; China
Scorpiones scorpion Cretaceous Myanmar diversity

Abstract

Among the scarce Mesozoic fossils, protoischnurid scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones: Protoischnuridae) represent a Cretaceous extinct group. In this study, we present the description of a new protoischnurid fossil, assigned to the genus Cretaceoushormiops Lourenço, from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Distinguished by a median suture and a comparatively short anterior margin in its carapace, the new specimen differs from all other species within Cretaceoushormiops. Our discovery sheds further light on the high diversity of mid-Cretaceous scorpions.

 

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