Opsieobuthus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of scorpions}}

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| fossil_range = Late Carboniferous-Early Permian, {{fossilrange|Pennsylvanian|Sakmarian}}

| image = Opsieobuthus tungeri.jpg

| image_caption = Holotypes (A-B) and paratypes (C-D) of O. tungeri

| taxon = Opsieobuthus

| authority = Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986

| type_species = {{extinct}}Opsieobuthus pottsvillensis

| type_species_authority = Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986{{cite journal|last=Kjellesvig-Waering|first =E. N.|title= A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world|journal=Palaeontographica Americana|year= 1986|volume=55|pages=1–287}}

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = *{{extinct}}O. pottsvillensis Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986

• {{extinct}}O. tungeri Dunlop et al. 2016

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Opsieobuthus is an extinct genus of centromachid scorpion. The type species O. pottsvillensis was named from the late Carboniferous of Clay City, Indiana. A second species ?O. tungeri was tentatively assigned to the genus from the Early Permian Chemnitz petrified forest in Germany.{{cite journal|last1=Dunlop|first1=Jason A.|last2=Legg|first2=David A.|last3=Selden|first3=Paul A.|last4=Fet|first4=Victor|last5=Schneider|first5=Joerg W.|last6=Rößler|first6=Ronny|title=Permian scorpions from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany|journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology|date=2016|volume=16|issue=1|pages=72|doi=10.1186/s12862-016-0634-z|pmid=27056633|pmc=4823912 |doi-access=free }}

File:Opsieobuthus tungeri 3.jpg