Micropalaeosoma
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Order: | Rhabdocoela |
| Suborder: | Dalytyphloplanida |
| Genus: | †Micropalaeosoma Poinar, 2004 |
| Type species | |
| †Micropalaeosoma balticus (Poinar, 2003)
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Micropalaeosoma balticus (formerly Palaeosoma balticus[a]) is an extinct, fossil turbellarian flatworm known from Baltic amber of Kaliningrad, Russia, that lived approximately 40 million years ago. It measured approximately 1.5 mm in length and is the oldest and most complete flatworm fossil yet discovered.[1][2]
References[]
- ^ The name Palaeosoma was preoccupied by a genus of fossil millipedes.
- ^ Poinar, George (2003). "A rhabdocoel turbellarian (Platyhelminthes, Typhloplanoida) in Baltic amber with a review of fossil and sub-fossil platyhelminths" (PDF). Invertebrate Biology. 122 (4): 308–312. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2003.tb00095.x.
- ^ Poinar, George O. (2011). "Eggs, Oviposition, and Maternal Care in Amber". In Arthur J. Boucot; George O. Poinar, Jr. (eds.). Fossil Behavior Compendium. CRC Press. ISBN 9781439859230.
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- Prehistoric protostome genera
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- Fossil taxa described in 2003
- Fossils of Russia
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