Tertiapatus Poinar 2000 (velvet worm)

Euonychophora - Tertiapatidae

Full reference: G. Poinar. 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 119:104-109

Parent taxon: Tertiapatidae according to G. Poinar 2000

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Tertiapatus dominicanus

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Type: Tertiapatus dominicanus

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll) (Miocene to Miocene of Dominican Republic)

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