Abstract
Synopsis A new specimen of Palaeoburmesebuthus grimaldii Lourenço, 2002, recently described from Cretaceous (Albian) Burmite, is reported. This is more complete than the holotype consisting of five scattered, unequal parts: a complete metasoma with an attached partial mesosoma bearing a visible stigma, a right pedipalp chela and three leg fragments. Comparisons to extinct and extant lineages of scorpions are made, although the partially observable trichobothrial pattern of the pedipalp chela precludes definitive family placement. The relative position of the fragments and the severe damage they have suffered imply that it was dismembered by a predator and provides the oldest evidence of scorpions being preyed upon by other animals.
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