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Palaeogrosphus copalensis Lourenço 1996 (scorpion)

Arachnida - Buthoidea - Buthidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 293720

Alternative combination: Tityobuthus copalensis

Full reference: W. R. Lourenço. 1996. Premier cas connu d'un sub-fossile de scorpion dans le copal de Madagascar. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Paris, Série IIa, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 323:889-891

Belongs to Palaeogrosphus according to W. R. Lourenço 2000

Sister taxon: Palaeogrosphus jacquesi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Madagascar copal, Antseranana region (GPIH collection), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Madagascar

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