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The affinities of the Carboniferous whip spider Graeophonus anglicus Pocock, 1911 (Arachnida: Amblypygi)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2008

Jason A. Dunlop ,
George R. S. Zhou  and
Simon J. Braddy
Jason A. Dunlop
Affiliation:
Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115, Berlin, Germany E-mail: jason.dunlop@museum.hu-berlin.de
George R. S. Zhou
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK
Simon J. Braddy
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK
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Abstract

The Late Carboniferous whip spider Graeophonus anglicus Pocock, 1911 (Arachnida: Amblypygi), is redescribed on the basis of the holotype and nine other specimens all preserved in sideritic nodules from the British Middle Coal Measures of Coseley, Staffordshire, UK. This species is clearly basal with respect to most living whip spiders, expressing numerous plesiomorphic character states and can be referred to both the suborder Paleoamblypygi and the ‘living fossil’ family Paracharontidae (with one Recent species), the latter based on an explict character of dorsal spination on the pedipalp femur. This suggests that crown-group Amblypygi originated by at least the mid-Palaeozoic.

Keywords

ArthropodaChelicerataCoseleyCoal MeasuresDuckmantian
Type
Research Article
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 98 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 165 - 178
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2007

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