Pseudoniscidae Temporal range:
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Restoration of Pseudoniscus roosevelti and Cyamocephalus loganensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Clade: | Prosomapoda |
Clade: | Planaterga |
Family: | †Pseudoniscidae Packard, 1886 |
Type species | |
†Pseudoniscus aculeatus Nieszkowski, 1859
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Genera | |
Pseudoniscidae is an extinct family of synziphosurine chelicerates that lived in the Silurian. Pseudoniscidae is classified inside the clade Planaterga, alongside Bunodidae and Dekatriata (chasmataspidids, eurypterids and arachnids).[1] Pseudoniscidae is composed by two genera, Cyamocephalus and Pseudoniscus (the type genus).[2][1][3]