Succinipatopsis
Succinipatopsis Temporal range: Eocene
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Onychophora |
Class: | Udeonychophora |
Order: | †Ontonychophora |
Family: | †Succinipatopsidae Poinar, 2000 |
Genus: | †Succinipatopsis Poinar, 2000 |
Species: | †S. balticus
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Binomial name | |
†Succinipatopsis balticus Poinar, 2000
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Succinipatopsis is an extinct onychophoran genus known from Eocene-aged Baltic amber.[1] The only known species described is S. balticus.
References[]
- ^ Poinar, G. Jr. (2000). "Fossil Onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic Amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n.g., n.sp. (Tertiapatidae n.fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n.g., n.sp. (Succinipatopsidae n.fam.) with a Proposed Classification of the Subphylum Onychophora". Invertebrate Biology. 119 (1): 104–9. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00178.x.
Categories:
- Monotypic protostome genera
- Prehistoric onychophorans
- Onychophoran genera
- Prehistoric protostome genera
- Baltic amber
- Fossil taxa described in 2000
- Onychophoran stubs