Palaeopisthacanthidae

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Scorpiones
Subordo: Neoscorpionina
Familia : †Palaeopisthacanthidae
Genera: †Compsoscorpius – †Cryptoscorpius – †Palaeopisthacanthus

Palaeopisthacanthidae Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986

• Kjellesvig-Waering, E.N. 1986. A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world. Palaeontographica Americana 55: 1–287. BHL. Reference page. 

• Zicha, Ondřej et al. Palaeopisthacanthidae – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
• Palaeopisthacanthidae – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Palaeopisthacanthidae – Taxon details on Fossilworks.
• Palaeopisthacanthidae – Taxon details on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
• Palaeopisthacanthidae – Taxon details on Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG).