Geralinura britannica Pocock, 1911

Garwood, Russell J. & Dunlop, Jason A., 2023, X-ray microtomography of the late Carboniferous whip scorpions (Arachnida, Thelyphonida) Geralinura britannica and Proschizomus petrunkevitchi, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (2180450) 21 (1), pp. 1-15 : 10-11

Geralinura britannica Pocock, 1911

1911 Geralinura britannica Pocock (misidentification in part): 29–30, pl. 1, fig. 3, pl. 2, fig. 3.

1913 Geralinura britannica Pocock (misidentification in part); Petrunkevitch: 59.

1935 Geralinura britannica Pocock (misidentification in part); Werner: 462, fig. 164.

1949 Geralinura britannica Pocock (misidentification in part); Petrunkevitch: 264–266.

1953 Prothelyphonus britannicus (Pocock) (misidentification in part); Petrunkevitch: 97–98.

1955 Prothelyphonus britannicus (Pocock) (misidentification in part); Petrunkevitch: 120.

1961 Prothelyphonus britannicus (Pocock) (misidentification in part); Laurentiaux-Viera and Laurentiaux: 25.

1962 Prothelyphonus britannicus (Pocock) (misidentification in part); Dubinin, fig. 1263.

1980 Prothelyphonus britannicus (Pocock) (misidentification in part); Morris: 45.

1983 Prothelyphonus britannicus (Pocock) (part); Brauckmann and Koch: 65, 68.

1985 Prothelyphonus britannicus (Pocock) (part); Brauckmann, Koch and Kemper, 22–23.

1991 Prothelyphonus britannicus (Pocock) (part); Brauckmann: 43–44.

1996 Geralinura britannica Pocock ; Dunlop and Horrocks: 301–302, figs 4, 7–16.

1997 Geralinura britannica Pocock ; Anderson et al.: 206, fig. 4e.

2003 Proschizomus petrunkevitchi Dunlop and Horrocks ; Harvey: 79.

2008 Geralinura britannica Pocock ; Tetlie and Dunlop: 310, fig. 6.4.

2016b Geralinura britannica Dunlop and Horrocks ; Selden et al.: 8.

Emended diagnosis. Geralinura with a more oval, anteriorly narrowed prosomal shield than G. carbonaria ; opisthosoma with well-developed muscle apodemes, but lacking tubercles and/or median divisions; patella of fourth leg without ornament; palpal trochanter bearing prominent prodorsal flange. (Emended from Tetlie & Dunlop, 2008.)

Material. NHMUK PI In 31265 (paratype) from the British Middle Coal Measures of Coseley near Dudley, Staffordshire, UK. Late Carboniferous (Duckmantian) .

Description. Detailed descriptions can be found in Petrunkevitch (1949) and Dunlop and Horrocks (1996); supplemented here by novel appendage data recovered through tomography. Total body length (excluding telson) 18 mm. Prosomal dorsal shield undivided, length 7.1 mm, maximum width 4.3 mm. Pedipalps subchelate, length 7.4 mm. Leg I slender, total preserved length 15.1 mm. Leg II, total preserved length 13.3 mm. Leg III, total preserved length 13.0mm. Leg IV, total preserved length 16.4 mm. Opisthsoma elongate; length 13.1 mm, maximum width 5.3 mm. Terminal three segments form a postabdomen, length, 4.3 mm. Telson equivocal.