Tertiapatus dominicanus 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

Belongs to Tertiapatus according to G. Poinar 2000

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Poinar ON-1-2. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll)

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