Cyamocephalus

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Cyamocephalus
Temporal range: Silurian
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Reconstruction of Cyamocephalus loganensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Clade: Prosomapoda
Clade: Planaterga
Family:† Pseudoniscidae
Genus:† Cyamocephalus
Currie, 1927
Type species
†Cyamocephalus loganensis
Currie, 1927

Cyamocephalus is a genus of synziphosurine, [1] a paraphyletic group of fossil chelicerate arthropods. [2] [3] Cyamocephalus was regarded as part of the clade Planaterga. [2] [4] [5] [6] [3] [7] Fossils of the single and type species, C. loganensis, have been discovered in deposits of the Silurian-aged Patrick Burn Formation in Lesmahagow, Scotland (in the United Kingdom). Cyamocephalus is one of the two members of the family Pseudoniscidae, the other being Pseudoniscus . [1] [7] [2] Cyamocephalus differ from Pseudoniscus by the fused tergites of 6th and 7th opisthosomal segments. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Anderson, Lyall I. (1999-01-01). "A new specimen of the Silurian synziphosurine arthropod Cyamocephalus" . Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 110 (3): 211–216. Bibcode:1999PrGA..110..211A. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(99)80071-6. ISSN   0016-7878.
  2. 1 2 3 Lamsdell, James C. (2013). "Revised systematics of Palaeozoic 'horseshoe crabs' and the myth of monophyletic Xiphosura". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 167 (1): 1–27. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00874.x . ISSN   0024-4082.
  3. 1 2 Bicknell, Russell D. C.; Pates, Stephen (2020). "Pictorial Atlas of Fossil and Extant Horseshoe Crabs, With Focus on Xiphosurida". Frontiers in Earth Science. 8: 98. Bibcode:2020FrEaS...8...98B. doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.00098 . ISSN   2296-6463.
  4. ↑ Selden, Paul A.; Lamsdell, James C.; Qi, Liu (2015). "An unusual euchelicerate linking horseshoe crabs and eurypterids, from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of Yunnan, China". Zoologica Scripta. 44 (6): 645–652. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12124 . ISSN   0300-3256. S2CID   55264483.
  5. ↑ Lamsdell, James C.; Briggs, Derek E. G.; Liu, Huaibao P.; Witzke, Brian J.; McKay, Robert M. (2015). "A new Ordovician arthropod from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa (USA) reveals the ground plan of eurypterids and chasmataspidids". The Science of Nature. 102 (9–10): 63. Bibcode:2015SciNa.102...63L. doi:10.1007/s00114-015-1312-5. ISSN   0028-1042. PMID   26391849. S2CID   8153035.
  6. ↑ Bicknell, Russell D. C.; Lustri, Lorenzo; Brougham, Tom (2019-12-01). "Revision of "Bellinurus" carteri (Chelicerata: Xiphosura) from the Late Devonian of Pennsylvania, USA". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 18 (8): 967–976. Bibcode:2019CRPal..18..967B. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2019.08.002. ISSN   1631-0683.
  7. 1 2 Dunlop, J. A.; Penney, D.; Jekel, D. (2018). "A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives" (PDF). World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. pp. 1–296.


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