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Summary

 This paleontological restoration is highly hypothetical, as very little fossil material of the animal is known. Use of this image might be controversial.

Reason: Known only from a movable finger of right pedipalp.
You may ask further questions about the accuracy of this image at the image review page of Wikiproject Palaeontology on the English Wikipedia.

This paleontological restoration is inaccurate, or its accuracy is disputed.

Reason: Species of Nanahughmilleria portrayed with Hughmilleria. TheRealLTG (talk) 16:42, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
4-segmented chelicerae (only 3-segmented in scorpion. The primitively 4-segmented hypothesis (e.g. Kjellesvig-Waering 1986) was disputed). Junnn11 (talk) 00:53, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

You may ask further questions about the accuracy of this image at the image review page of Wikiproject Palaeontology on the English Wikipedia.
Description
English: The extinct English giant scorpion, Brontoscorpio anglicus, capturing one of a pair of Nanahughmilleria norvegica eurypterids. A tiny horseshoe crab, Hemiaspis limuloides limuloides crawls on B. anglicus' back. From the Silurian (C) Stanton F. Fink
Date 23 August 2006 (original upload date)
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  • 2007-03-15 04:05 Apokryltaros 525×566×8 (602644 bytes) The [[England|English]] Thunder Scorpion, ''[[Brontoscorpio anglicus]], capturing one of a pair of [[Hugh Miller]]'s eurypterid, ''[[Hughmilleri]] norvegica''. A tiny [[horseshoe crab]], ''[[Hemiaspis]] limuloides'' crawls on ''B. anglicus''' back, perha
  • 2006-08-23 02:50 Apokryltaros 1127×1472×8 (2760643 bytes) My reconstruction of the scorpion ''[[Brontoscorpio anglicus]]'', of Silurian England, eating the pteraspid fish, ''[[Anglaspis heintzi]]''

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