Paracarus pristinus Dunlop, Wunderlich & Poinar Jr, 2004

Araújo, Marcel Santos De, Palma, Antonella Di & Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio, 2020, Catalog of the Opilioacarida (Acari: Parasitiformes), Zootaxa 4895 (3), pp. 332-356 : 350

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D2CCF661-B1C9-45A5-B344-E01C519716C5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4361460

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E7A162-FFE1-684F-FF14-E31CFCB0FBCE

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Plazi

scientific name

Paracarus pristinus Dunlop, Wunderlich & Poinar Jr, 2004
status

 

9.2. † Paracarus pristinus Dunlop, Wunderlich & Poinar Jr, 2004 View in CoL

Paracarus pristinus Dunlop et al. 2004: 270 View in CoL , figs. 1-2 (original description)

Holotype: One specimen ( LAS) F1011 /BB/AR/CJW. Tertiary Baltic amber forest; Baltic amber from Central Europe.

Distribution: The exact collection locality is unknown, but it may have been in the vicinity of Kaliningrad, Baltic coast of Russia. Despite being difficult to date, these findings of Baltic Amber are generally from the Eocene age (c. 38–54 Ma).

Etymology: From the Latin pristinus , meaning old or former.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Opilioacarida

Family

Opilioacaridae

Genus

Paracarus

Loc

Paracarus pristinus Dunlop, Wunderlich & Poinar Jr, 2004

Araújo, Marcel Santos De, Palma, Antonella Di & Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio 2020
2020
Loc

Paracarus pristinus

Dunlop, J. A. & Wunderlich, J. & Poinar Jr., G. O. 2004: 270
2004
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