Britopygus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Amblypygi |
| Family: | Phrynidae |
| Genus: | †Britopygus Dunlop and Martill, 2002 |
| Species: | †B. weygoldti
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| †Britopygus weygoldti Dunlop and Martill, 2002
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Britopygus is an extinct genus of whip spider that lived in Brazil (Crato Formation) during the Early Cretaceous epoch.
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus is known from a single species, Britopygus weygoldti. Although it bears similarity to members of the extant family Charinidae, its placement in this clade is not beyond dispute[1] and more recent sources place the genus in Phrynidae.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Dunlop, Jason A.; Martill, David M. (September 2001). "The first whipspider (Arachnida: Amblypygi) and three new whipscorpions (Arachnida: Thelyphonida) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 92 (3): 325–334. doi:10.1017/S0263593300000262. ISSN 0263-5933. Retrieved 15 September 2024 – via Cambridge Core.
- ^ Garwood, R. J.; Dunlop, J. A.; Knecht, B. J.; Hegna, T. A. (December 2017). "The first whipspider (Arachnida: Amblypygi) and three new whipscorpions (Arachnida: Thelyphonida) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 105. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0931-1. PMC 5399839. PMID 28431496.
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