''Dracochela'' is an extinct genus of

fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserve ...

stem group In phylogenetics, the crown group or crown assemblage is a collection of species composed of the living representatives of the collection, the most recent common ancestor of the collection, and all descendants of the most recent common ancestor. ...

pseudoscorpions, containing the single species ''Dracochela deprehendor''. It is known from cuticle fragments of nymphs found in the mid-

Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a period (geology), geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era during the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian per ...

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Givetian The Givetian is one of two faunal stages in the Middle Devonian Period. It lasted from million years ago to million years ago. It was preceded by the Eifelian Stage and followed by the Frasnian Stage. It is named after the town of Givet in ...

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Eifelian The Eifelian is the first of two faunal stages in the Middle Devonian Epoch. It lasted from 393.3 ± 1.2 million years ago to 387.7 ± 0.8 million years ago. It was preceded by the Emsian Stage and followed by the Givetian Stage. North American ...

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Panther Mountain Formation The Panther Mountain Formation is a Formation (stratigraphy), geologic formation in New York (state), New York. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian Period (geology), period. It is located in the counties of Albany County, New York, ...

New York State New York, also called New York State, is a state in the northeastern United States. Bordered by New England to the east, Canada to the north, and Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the south, its territory extends into both the Atlantic Ocean and ...

. Its full name translates to “dragon claw who takes by surprise”

References

* (1991): The first Paleozoic pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpionida). ''American Museum Novitates'' 3009
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* Judson, Mark L.I. (2012). "Reinterpretation of ''Dracochela deprehendor'' (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) as a stem-group pseudoscorpion" ''Palaeontology'', 55.2 (March 2012) pages 261–283, redescribed the type material and an addition

palp Pedipalps (commonly shortened to palps or palpi) are the secondary pair of forward appendages among chelicerates – a group of arthropods including spiders, scorpions, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders. The pedipalps are lateral to the chelicera ...

al fragment. Pseudoscorpion genera Monotypic prehistoric arachnid genera Devonian arachnids Middle Devonian invertebrates Devonian arthropods of North America Fossil taxa described in 1991 {{pseudoscorpion-stub