Arachnida - Ricinulei - Poliocheridae
Alternative combination: Polyochera glabra
Full reference: A. I. Petrunkevitch. 1913. A monograph of the terrestrial Palaeozoic Arachnida of North America. Transactions of the Connecticut Acadamy of Arts and Sciences 18:1-137
Belongs to Poliochera according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013
See also Petrunkevitch 1913, Petrunkevitch 1949, Petrunkevitch 1953 and Selden 1992
Sister taxa: Poliochera cretacea, Poliochera gibbsi, Poliochera punctulata
Type specimen: USNM 37981. Its type locality is Mazon Creek, USNM Lacoe Collection, which is in a Westphalian D interdistributary bay mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (2: Illinois collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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