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Description of Neoliodes dominicus n. sp. (Acari, Oribatida) from dominican amber, aided by synchrotron x-ray microtomography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Michael Heethoff ,
Lukas Helfen  and
Roy A. Norton
Michael Heethoff
Affiliation:
Universität Tübingen, Zoologisches Institut, Abteilung für Evolutionsbiologie der Invertebraten, Auf der Morgenstelle 28E; 72076 Tübingen, Germany,
Lukas Helfen
Affiliation:
Institute for Synchrotron Radiation, ANKA, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany,
Roy A. Norton
Affiliation:
State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse 13210,
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The nearly ubiquitous mite suborder Oribatida, which comprises mostly mycophages and saprophages in organic soil horizons, has a long geological history. Early derivative taxa are known from middle and late Devonian deposits (Norton et al., 1988; Subías and Arillo, 2002) and members of the highly derived cohort Brachypylina have existed since the Jurassic (Krivolutsky and Krasilov, 1977, Selden et al., 2008). The group is commonly represented as inclusion-fossils in amber, with about 100 species known worldwide. Except for four Cretaceous fossils from Siberia (Bulanova-Zachvatkina, 1974; Krivolutsky and Ryabinin, 1976) and Spain (Arillo and Subías, 2000, 2002), the named amber species are of Tertiary age. The majority of these have been discovered in the Priabonian (middle Eocene) Baltic amber deposits of northern Europe (Labandeira et al., 1997; Norton, 2006).

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 83 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 153 - 159
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