Tertiapatoidea

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Tertiapatoidea
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Class: Udeonychophora
Order: Ontonychophora
Superfamily: Tertiapatoidea
Poinar, 2000
Families
  • Tertiapatidae
  • Succinipatopsidae

Tertiapatoidea is an extinct superfamily of onychophoran consisting of two monospecific families, Tertiapatidae, and Succininpatopsidae, neither of which preserve feet or claws at the ends of their legs.[1]

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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