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Gigantocharinus szatmaryi, a new trigonotarbid arachnid from the Late Devonian of North America (Chelicerata, Arachnida, Trigonotarbida)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

William A. Shear
William A. Shear*
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia 23943
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Abstract

A new trigonotarbid arachnid, Gigantocharinus szatmaryi new genus and species, is described from Upper Devonian (Late Famennian) sediments in Pennsylvania. Devonian trigonotarbids were known before from only a single North American locality and several European ones. The new trigonotarbid occurs in what had previously been a significant time gap between the faunas of the Middle Devonian and the late Carboniferous. Gigantocharinus szatmaryi is assigned with some hesitation to the family Palaeocharinidae.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 74 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 25 - 31
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 2000

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