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Chactas pleistocenicus

Arachnida - Scorpiones - Chactidae

Taxonomy
Chactas pleistocenicus was named by Lourenço and Weitschat (2005). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Colombian copal, Penia Blanca (Knodel coll), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Colombia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2005Chactas pleistocenicus Lourenço and Weitschat p. 180 figs. 1-6

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Planaterga
—Dekatriata
—SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
—Stomothecata
orderScorpionesLatreille 1817
suborderOrthosternina()
superfamilyChactoideaPocock 1893
familyChactidaePocock 1893
genusChactasGervais 1844
speciespleistocenicus

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.

†Chactas pleistocenicus Lourenço and Weitschat 2005
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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: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Colombia (Santander) Chactas pleistocenicus (type locality: 155980)