Ontonychophora

Ontonychophora; Temporal range: Carboniferous–Neogene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
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Families
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Ontonychophora is an extinct order of onychophoran consisting of organisms with simple lobopods that lack terminal feet.^[1] It includes all fossil onychophorans except †Cretoperipatus, which is in the Euonychophora along with all remaining members of the phylum.

Families

†Helenodoridae

†Tertiapatoidea

†Tertiapatidae
†Succinipatopsidae

References

^ 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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[Jr2000-1] 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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