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Ootarbus pulcher

Arachnida - Phalangiotarbida - Architarbidae

Taxonomy
Ootarbus pulcher was named by Petrunkevitch (1945). Its type specimen is ISM 14861, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Mazon Creek (Illinois State Museum collection), which is in a Westphalian D deltaic mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois. It is the type species of Ootarbus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1945Ootarbus pulcher Petrunkevitch p. 36 figs. Pl 3, figs 12,13,17,22; text-figs 15-22
1949Ootarbus pulcher Petrunkevitch p. 173
1953Ootarbus pulcher Petrunkevitch p. 51

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
—EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
RankNameAuthor
—Prosomapoda
—Planaterga
—Dekatriata
—SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
orderPhalangiotarbida()
familyArchitarbidae
genusOotarbus
speciespulcher

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.

†Ootarbus pulcher Petrunkevitch 1945
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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: Westphalian D or 309.80000 to 307.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Westphalian D309.8 - 307.5USA (Illinois) Ootarbus pulcher (type locality: 133734)