Deinocroton draculi 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

Belongs to Deinocroton according to E. Peñalver et al. 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH Bu-SA5a, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Scott Anderson coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

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

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