''Palaeocharinus'' is a genus of extinct trigonotarbid arachnids known from the

Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya. It is named after Devon, England, whe ...

of western Europe. The genus was first found and described in the Rhynie chert in the 1920s by

Arthur Stanley Hirst Arthur Stanley Hirst (1883 – 4 May 1930) also known as Stanley Hirst, was an English arachnologist and myriapodologist on the staff of the British Museum, and was an authority on Arachnida, especially Acari (ticks and mites) Myriapoda. Born i ...

and S. Maulik. The family to which the genus belongs may be paraphyletic.

Species

* ''Palaeocharinus calmani'' (Hirst, 1923) – Early Devonian, Scotland * ''Palaeocharinus hornei'' (Hirst, 1923) – Early Devonian, Scotland * ''Palaeocharinus kidstoni'' (Hirst, 1923) – Early Devonian, Scotland * ''Palaeocharinus rhyniensis'' (Hirst, 1923) – Early Devonian, Scotland * ''Palaeocharinus scourfieldi'' (Hirst, 1923) – Early Devonian, Scotland * ''Palaeocharinus tuberculatus'' (Fayers, Dunlop & Trewin, 2005) – Early Devonian, Scotland

References

Trigonotarbids Devonian arachnids Devonian arthropods of Europe Devonian Scotland Early Devonian first appearances Early Devonian genus extinctions Prehistoric life of Europe Taxa named by Arthur Stanley Hirst {{paleo-arachnid-stub