Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56010-z, published online 16 January 2020


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Systematic Palaeontology


Order Scorpiones Koch, 1837


Family Undetermined


Genus Parioscorpio gen. nov.


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Etymology. From Latin, pario, progenitor, and scorpio, scorpion.


Type Species. Parioscorpio venator sp. nov.


Diagnosis. As for P. venator, see below.


Distribution. Silurian (Llandovery, Telychian; c. 437.5-436.5 Ma), Wisconsin, USA.


Parioscorpio venator gen. et sp. nov. Figures 1, 2a and 3)


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Etymology. From Latin, venator, hunter.


Types. Holotype, University of Wisconsin Geology Museum, Madison, Wisconsin, UWGM 2162. Paratype, UWGM 2163.


Location. Waukesha Lime and Stone Company west quarry, north of State Highway 164, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA.


Horizon. Lower part of the Brandon Bridge Formation (Silurian: Llandovery, Telychian).


Diagnosis. Prosoma subtrapezoidal with large eyes situated anterolaterally and ocelli situated anteromedially; pedipalps large, with tibia (fixed finger) elongate, swollen proximally in manus, narrow and recurved distally in ramus; mesosoma moderately wide and much longer than the metasoma, containing 7 dorsal tergites and 7 ventral sternites; sternites 1-2 short (sagitally), length increasing posteriorly. Metasoma excluding telson, approximately 1/3 length of opisthosoma, containing five narrow, subequal, weakly bilobate segments. Telson swollen proximally.


Nomenclatural Acts


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