Maiocercus
Maiocercus Temporal range:
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Fossil of Maiocercus celticus located in Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Brussels, Belgium. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | †Trigonotarbida |
Family: | †Anthracomartidae |
Genus: | †Maiocercus Pocock, 1902 |
Species: | †M. celticus
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Binomial name | |
†Maiocercus celticus (Pocock, 1902)
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Maiocercus celticus is a species of early
M. celticus is the type species of the genus Maiocercus.[3]
Originally zoologist Reginald Innes Pocock compared M. celticus to Brachypyge, with later evidence showing that Brachypyge had "opisthosoma which were much longer than wide; with the pleural laminæ of the second and third pleura-bearing terga being inclined slightly backwards" (Brachypyge) with Maiocercus having the “opisthosoma much wider than long; the pleural laminæ of the first, second, third, and fourth sterna being inclined slightly forwards”.[4]
The original drawing which showed Maiocercus described a pitting on the underside of the slightly forwarded laminæ, with a non-uniform concavity on the outer margins of them. The concavity is most well-marked in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth somites, with the opposite happening on the second, third and fourth somites.[5]
See also
References
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- ^ Yorkshire Geological Society. Yorkshire Geological Society. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 12 August 2022 – via Google Books.
- S2CID 129301901.
- ^ Geological Magazine. Cambridge University Press. 10 July 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2022 – via Google Books.