Cyamocephalus
Extinct genus of chelicerate
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Cyamocephalus is a genus of synziphosurine,[1] a paraphyletic group of fossil chelicerate arthropods.[2][3] Cyamocephalus was regarded as part of the clade Planaterga.[2][4][5][6][3][7] Fossils of the single and type species, C. loganensis, have been discovered in deposits of the Silurian-aged Patrick Burn Formation in Lesmahagow, Scotland (in the United Kingdom). Cyamocephalus is one of the two members of the family Pseudoniscidae, the other being Pseudoniscus.[1][7][2] Cyamocephalus differ from Pseudoniscus by the fused tergites of 6th and 7th opisthosomal segments.[1]
| Cyamocephalus Temporal range: | |
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| Reconstruction of Cyamocephalus loganensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Clade: | Prosomapoda |
| Clade: | Planaterga |
| Family: | †Pseudoniscidae |
| Genus: | †Cyamocephalus Currie, 1927 |
| Type species | |
| †Cyamocephalus loganensis Currie, 1927 | |
