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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Amblypygi |
| Family: | Phrynidae |
| Genus: | †Britopygus Dunlop and Martill, 2002 |
| Species: | †B. weygoldti
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| †Britopygus weygoldti Dunlop and Martill, 2002
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Britopygus is an extinct genus of whip spider that lived in Brazil (Crato Formation) during the Early Cretaceous epoch.
Taxonomy
The genus is known from a single species, Britopygus weygoldti. Although it bears similarity to members of the extant family Charinidae, its placement in this clade is not beyond dispute1 and more recent sources place the genus in Phrynidae.2
References
References
- Dunlop, Jason A.; Martill, David M. (September 2001). "The first whipspider (Arachnida: Amblypygi) and three new whipscorpions (Arachnida: Thelyphonida) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 92 (3): 325–334. doi:10.1017/S0263593300000262. ISSN 0263-5933. Retrieved 15 September 2024 – via Cambridge Core.
- Garwood, R. J.; Dunlop, J. A.; Knecht, B. J.; Hegna, T. A. (December 2017). "The first whipspider (Arachnida: Amblypygi) and three new whipscorpions (Arachnida: Thelyphonida) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 105. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0931-1. PMC 5399839. PMID 28431496.