Gigantoscorpio Temporal range: Carboniferous | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Scorpiones |
Suborder: | †Holosternina |
Superfamily: | †Gigantoscorpionoidea |
Family: | †Gigantoscorpionidae |
Genus: | †Gigantoscorpio Stormer, 1963 |
Species: | †G. willsi |
Binomial name | |
†Gigantoscorpio willsi Stormer, 1963 |
Gigantoscorpio is an extinct genus of scorpion which existed during the Carboniferous between 346.7 million and 330.9 million years ago. Its type specimen is BMNH In. 42706a,b, In. 42707, which is a 3D body fossil of its exoskeleton found near modern-day United Kingdom.