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Zorotypus palaeus
Taxonomy
Zorotypus palaeus was named by Poinar (1988). Its type specimen is USNM BLPC-7406, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1988 | Zorotypus palaeus Poinar p. 254 figs. 1-7 |
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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.
†Zorotypus palaeus Poinar 1988
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Burdigalian - Langhian | Dominican Republic | Zorotypus palaeus (type locality: 122473) |