Palaeocharinus rhyniensis life restoration at MUSE - Science Museum in Trento
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Chelicerata
Class:
Arachnida
Order:
†Trigonotarbida
Family:
†Palaeocharinidae
Genus:
†Palaeocharinus Hirst, 1923
Type species
Palaeocharinus rhyniensis
Hirst, 1923
Palaeocharinus is a genus of extinct trigonotarbid arachnids known from the Devonian of western Europe. The genus was first found and described in the Rhynie chert in the 1920s by Arthur Stanley Hirst and S. Maulik.[1][2][3] The family to which the genus belongs may be paraphyletic.[4]
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^B.B. Rohdendorf; Donald R. Davis, eds. (1991). Fundamentals of Paleontology. Vol. 9. Arthropoda — Tracheata and Chelicerata. Vol. v 9. Smithsonian Institution Libraries and The National Science Foundation. pp. 737–740.
^Garwood, Russell J.; Dunlop, Jason (July 2014). "The walking dead: Blender as a tool for paleontologists with a case study on extinct arachnids". Journal of Paleontology. 88 (4): 735–746. doi:10.1666/13-088. ISSN 0022-3360. Retrieved 2015-07-21.
^Jones, Fiona; Dunlop, Jason A.; Friedman, Matthew; Garwood, Russell J. (2014). "Trigonotarbus johnsoni Pocock, 1911, revealed by X-ray computed tomography, with a cladistic analysis of the extinct trigonotarbid arachnids". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 172 (1): 49–70. doi:10.1111/zoj.12167.
Archaeomartidae, based on a 2014 cladistic analysis, within the clade (Palaeocharinus (Archaeomartidae + Anthracomartidae)). Anthracomartus Karsch, 1882 Brachylycosa...
reticulatus Trigonotarbids in the family Palaeocharinidae. Gilboarachne G. griersoni Palaeocharinus P. sp. Protochthonius P. gilboa A oribatid mite....
Eophalangium sheari, Acari (mites), and trigonotarbids in the genus Palaeocharinus. The oldest known hexapod (Rhyniella praecursor), which resembles the...
arachnids, especially that of a specimen of an indeterminate species of Palaeocharinus from the Devonian. The presence of trabeculae also confirms that the...