Gondwanascorpio
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gondwanascorpio-314-18313446
title:
Gondwanascorpio
text:
Gondwanascorpio emzantsiensis is an extinct Gondwanan scorpion that lived 360 million years ago in the Devonian. Its fossil remains, clearly showing pincer and sting, were discovered in rocks of the Witteberg Group near Grahamstown in South Africa. At present, this scorpion is the oldest known land-dwelling animal from Gondwana, which in Devonian times was separated from Laurasia by a deep ocean. At the time, the fossil site was only 15° from the South Pole, but rather than arctic-like tundra, t
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description:
Extinct genus of scorpion from late Devinian Gondwana
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwanascorpio
date created:
date modified:
2023-08-13T14:37:51Z
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13
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