Tertiapatus

Tertiapatus
Temporal range: Eocene–Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Class: Udeonychophora
Order: Ontonychophora
Family: Tertiapatidae
Genus: Tertiapatus
Poinar, 2000

Tertiapatus dominicanus is an extinct species of onychophoran known from Dominican amber deposits.[1]

References

  1. Poinar, G. Jr. (2000). "Fossil Onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic Amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n.g., n.sp. (Tertiapatidae n.fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n.g., n.sp. (Succinipatopsidae n.fam.) with a Proposed Classification of the Subphylum Onychophora". Invertebrate Biology 119 (1): 104–9. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00178.x.
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