Succinipatopsis

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Succinipatopsis
Temporal range: Eocene
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Class: Udeonychophora
Order: Ontonychophora
Family: Succinipatopsidae
Poinar, 2000
Genus: Succinipatopsis
Poinar, 2000
Species:
S. balticus
Binomial name
Succinipatopsis balticus
Poinar, 2000

Succinipatopsis is an extinct onychophoran genus known from Eocene-aged Baltic amber.[1] The only known species described is S. balticus.

References[]

  1. ^ 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.


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