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Genus of harvestmen/daddy longlegs

Amauropilio
Temporal range: Chadronian PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Suborder: Eupnoi
Superfamily: Phalangioidea
Family: Sclerosomatidae
Genus: Amauropilio
Mello-Leitão, 1937

Amauropilio is an extinct genus of harvestmen in the family Sclerosomatidae. It is known from the Chadronian aged Florissant Formation in Colorado.

Species

  • Amauropilio atavus (Cockerell, 1907)
  • Amauropilio lacoei (Petrunkevitch, 1922) (note, this was later miswritten "Amauropilio lawei" in Mello-Leitão, 1937).

References

  1. "Amauropilio". Kury, A. et al. (2023). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 28 Nov 2023.
  2. Petrunkevitch, A. (1922). "Tertiary spiders and opilionids of North America". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 25 (3): 211–279.
  3. Mello-Leitão, C.F. (1937). "Distribution et Phylogénie des Faucheurs Sud-Américains. Comptes Rendus du XIIe Congrès Internacional de Zoologie (Lisboa, 15–21 Sept. 1935)". Arquivos do Museu Bocage. 6: 1217–1228.
Taxon identifiers
Amauropilio


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