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Devonacarus sellnicki

Arachnida - Acariformes - Devonacaridae

Taxonomy
Devonacarus sellnicki was named by Norton et al. (1988). Its type specimen is AMNH-43123, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Brown Mountain Gilboa, which is in an Eifelian fluvial-lacustrine mudstone in New York. It is the type species of Devonacarus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Devonacarus sellnicki Norton et al. p. 264

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
—EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
—Prosomapoda
—Planaterga
RankNameAuthor
—Dekatriata
—SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
—PoecilophysideaPepato et al. 2010
orderAcariformes(Zakhvatkin 1952)
suborderSarcoptiformesReuter 1909
infraorderOribatidaDugès 1834
—EnarthronotaGrandjean 1947
familyDevonacaridae
genusDevonacarus
speciessellnicki

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Devonacarus sellnicki Norton et al. 1988
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Grouping: solitaryc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 09:55:58
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:55:58
Source: c = class
Reference: Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Eifelian or 393.47000 to 387.95000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Eifelian393.47 - 387.95USA (New York) Devonacarus sellnicki (type locality: 106001)