†Cornupalpatum burmanicum Poinar and Brown 2003 (hard tick)
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Arachnida - Parasitiformes - Ixodidae
Full reference: G. Poinar and A. E. Brown. 2003. A new genus of hard ticks in Cretaceous Burmese amber (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae). Systematic Parasitology 54:199-205
Belongs to Cornupalpatum according to E. Peñalver et al. 2017
See also Dunlop et al. 2013 and Poinar and Brown 2003
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Poinar A-10-260, a nymph (larva). Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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