Helenodora
Helenodora inopinata is an extinct onychophoran known from the Carboniferous Carbondale Formation of Illinois.[3][4]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Onychophora |
| Class: | Udeonychophora |
| Order: | †Ontonychophora |
| Family: | †Helenodoridae Poinar, 2005[1] |
| Genus: | †Helenodora Thompson and Jones, 1980 |
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References
- Poinar, G. Jr. (March 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.
- Thompson, I.; Jones, D. S. (May 1980). "A Possible Onychophoran from the Middle Pennsylvanian Mazon Creek Beds of Northern Illinois" (PDF). Journal of Paleontology. 54 (3): 588–596. Bibcode:1974JPal...48..524M. JSTOR 1304204.
- Poinar, G. (6 September 1996). "Fossil Velvet Worms in Baltic and Dominican Amber: Onychophoran Evolution and Biogeography". Science. 273 (5280): 1370–1371. Bibcode:1996Sci...273.1370P. doi:10.1126/science.273.5280.1370. S2CID 85373762.
- Murdock, D. J. E.; Gabbott, S. E.; Purnell, M. A. (2016). "The impact of taphonomic data on phylogenetic resolution: Helenodora inopinata (Carboniferous, Mazon Creek Lagerstätte) and the onychophoran stem lineage". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16 (19): 19. doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0582-7. PMC 4722706. PMID 26801389.
External links
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