Biology:Tertiapatus

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Short description: Tertiary-aged velvet worm

Tertiapatus
Temporal range: Eocene–Miocene
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Family: Tertiapatidae
Poinar, 2000
Genus: Tertiapatus
Poinar, 2000
Species:
T. dominicanus
Binomial name
Tertiapatus dominicanus
Poinar, 2000

Tertiapatus is an extinct genus of supposed onychophoran known from Dominican amber deposits. The only known species described is Tertiapatus dominicanus.[1] Other authors have doubted its status as an onchyophoran, due to its arthropodized antennae and articulated exoskeleton, which suggests that it is likely an arthropod.[2]

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. 
  2. Garwood, Russell J.; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Charbonnier, Sylvain; Chabard, Dominique; Sotty, Daniel; Giribet, Gonzalo (September 2016). "Carboniferous Onychophora from Montceau-les-Mines, France, and onychophoran terrestrialization" (in en). Invertebrate Biology 135 (3): 179–190. doi:10.1111/ivb.12130. PMID 27708504. 

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