Pseudoniscidae
Extinct family of chelicerates
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Pseudoniscidae is an extinct family of synziphosurine chelicerates that lived in the Silurian. Pseudoniscidae is classified inside the clade Planaterga, alongside Bunodidae and Dekatriata (chasmataspidids, eurypterids and arachnids).[1] Pseudoniscidae is composed by two genera, Cyamocephalus and Pseudoniscus (the type genus).[2][1][3]
| Pseudoniscidae Temporal range: | |
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| Restoration of Pseudoniscus roosevelti and Cyamocephalus loganensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Clade: | Prosomapoda |
| Clade: | Planaterga |
| Family: | †Pseudoniscidae Packard, 1886 |
| Type species | |
| †Pseudoniscus aculeatus Nieszkowski, 1859 | |
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