Deinocroton Peñalver et al. 2017 (tick)

Arachnida - Parasitiformes - Deinocrotonidae

Full reference: E. Peñalver, A. Arillo, S. R. Anderson and R. Pérez-de Fuente. 2017. Taxonomic names, in Ticks parasitised feathered dinosaurs as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages. Nature Communications 8(1924):1-13

Parent taxon: Deinocrotonidae according to E. Peñalver et al. 2017

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Deinocroton draculi

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Type: Deinocroton draculi

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Scott Anderson coll) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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