1 January 2000 GIGANTOCHARINUS SZATMARYI, A NEW TRIGONOTARBID ARACHNID FROM THE LATE DEVONIAN OF NORTH AMERICA (CHELICERATA, ARACHNIDA, TRIGONOTARBIDA)
WILLIAM A. SHEAR
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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.

WILLIAM A. SHEAR "GIGANTOCHARINUS SZATMARYI, A NEW TRIGONOTARBID ARACHNID FROM THE LATE DEVONIAN OF NORTH AMERICA (CHELICERATA, ARACHNIDA, TRIGONOTARBIDA)," Journal of Paleontology 74(1), 25-31, (1 January 2000). https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<0025:GSANTA>2.0.CO;2
Accepted: 1 August 1999; Published: 1 January 2000
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