Arachnida - Ricinulei - Curculioididae
Full reference: N. Whalen and P. Selden. 2020. A new, giant ricinuleid (Arachnida, Ricinulei), from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois, and the identification of a new, ontogenetically stable, diagnostic character. Journal of Paleontology 95:601-612
Belongs to Curculioides according to N. Whalen and P. Selden 2020
Sister taxa: Curculioides adompha, Curculioides ansticii, Curculioides eltringhami, Curculioides gigas, Curculioides granulatus, Curculioides mcluckiei, Curculioides pococki, Curculioides scaber
Type specimen: ACCN2015-104, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Near Little Vermilion River, Georgetown, which is in a Westphalian D wet floodplain mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Near Little Vermilion River, Georgetown
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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