†Compluriscutula Poinar and Buckley 2008 (hard tick)
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Arachnida - Parasitiformes - Ixodidae
Full reference: G. O. Poinar and R. Buckley. 2008. Compluriscutula vetulum (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae), a new genus and species of hard tick from Lower Cretaceous Burmese amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 110:445-450
Parent taxon: Ixodidae according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013
See also Poinar and Buckley 2008
Sister taxa: Cornupalpatum, Ixodes
Subtaxa: Compluriscutula vetulum
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Ron Buckley amber collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)
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