A second camel spider (Arachnida: Solifugae) from Baltic amber

• Autorzy: Dunlop J. , Klann A.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Fossil camel spiders (Arachnida: Solifugae) are extremely rare and only the second example ever recovered from Baltic amber (Paleogene: Eocene) is described here.Although superficially well preserved and more than twice the size of the previously known Baltic amber specimen, key taxonomic characters allowing meaningful comparisons to the other fossil and living material cannot, unfortunately, be resolved. It is formally treated here as Solifugae gen. et sp. indet., although we concede that it could be an adult of the previously recorded Baltic amber species Palaeoblossia groehni Dunlop,Wunderlich and Poinar, 2004.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Arachnida; Eocene; Solifugae

PL

eocen; pajęczaki; Solfugi

• Wydawca: Faculty of Geology of the University of Warsaw ; Komitet Nauk Geologicznych PAN
• Czasopismo: Acta Geologica Polonica
• Rocznik: 2009
• Tom: Vol. 59, no. 1
• Strony: 39--44
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 16 poz.,Fot., rys.,

Twórcy

autor

Dunlop J.

autor

Klann A.

• Museum fur Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany,

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