Palaeocharinus is a genus of extinct trigonotarbid arachnids known from the Devonian of western Europe. The genus was first found and described in the Rhynie chert in the 1920s by Arthur Stanley Hirst 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