Dracochela Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Pseudoscorpiones |
Family: | †Dracochelidae Schawaller, Shear & Bonamo, 1991 |
Genus: | †Dracochela Schawaller, Shear & Bonamo, 1991 |
Species: | †D. deprehendor
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Binomial name | |
†Dracochela deprehendor Schawaller, Shear & Bonamo, 1991
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Dracochela is an extinct genus of fossil stem group pseudoscorpions, containing the single species Dracochela deprehendor. It is known from cuticle fragments of nymphs found in the mid-Devonian (Givetian–Eifelian) Panther Mountain Formation of New York State. Dracochela signifies 'dragon claw".