Tertiapatoidea

Tertiapatoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Class: Udeonychophora
Order: Ontonychophora
Superfamily: Tertiapatoidea
Poinar, 2000

Tertiapatidae is an extinct superfamily of Onychophoran consisting of two monospecific families, Tertiapatidae, and Succininpatopsidae, neither of which preserve feet or claws at the ends of their legs.[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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