A review of fossil scorpion higher systematics
Jason A. Dunlop, Russell J. Garwood · 2024
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Description
Jason Dunlop and Russell Garwood reviewed the higher classification of fossil scorpions in 2024. Scorpions have a rich, deep fossil record, and their family tree has been drawn and redrawn for over a century. The review walks through that history in order.
Early schemes split scorpions by leg tips, then by belly plate shapes, then by a disputed first body segment. Later cladistic schemes traced a path from early side branches to modern scorpions, marked by book lungs and jaw parts. Within the modern group, paleosterns and orthosterns split by lung opening placement. The authors weigh the rival schemes and give a summary classification, with family and genus names set in their time line.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jason A. Dunlop, Russell J. Garwood |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 107 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |