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The Fossil Arachnida

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Zoogeography of Arachnida

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Concerning the fossil orders, Dunlop (1996a, b) presents a revised concept of the formerly accepted (Weygoldt and Paulus 1979; Shultz 1990) five fossil orders of Arachnida. The subclasses of Petrunkevitch (1949) have been rejected, Anthracomartida – synonymized with Trigonotarbida. It was concluded that the position of Phalangiotarbida and Haptopoda remains obscure. Kustarachnida, according to Dunlop (1996a, b), represents misidentified opilionids.

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Beron, P. (2018). The Fossil Arachnida. In: Zoogeography of Arachnida. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 94. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74418-6_4

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