Amauropilio is an extinct genus of harvestmen in the family Sclerosomatidae.[1] It is known from the Chadronian aged Florissant Formation in Colorado.[2]

Amauropilio
Temporal range: Chadronian
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Amauropilio

Mello-Leitão, 1937

Species

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  • Amauropilio atavus (Cockerell, 1907)
  • Amauropilio lacoei (Petrunkevitch, 1922) (note, this was later miswritten "Amauropilio lawei" in Mello-Leitão, 1937).[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Amauropilio". Kury, A. et al. (2023). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 28 Nov 2023.
  2. ^ Petrunkevitch, A. (1922). "Tertiary spiders and opilionids of North America". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 25 (3): 211–279.
  3. ^ Mello-Leitão, C.F. (1937). "Distribution et Phylogénie des Faucheurs Sud-Américains. Comptes Rendus du XIIe Congrès Internacional de Zoologie (Lisboa, 15–21 Sept. 1935)". Arquivos do Museu Bocage. 6: 1217–1228.