Ontonychophora

Ontonychophora
Temporal range: Carboniferous–Tertiary
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Class: Udeonychophora
Order: †Ontonychophora
Poinar, 2000
Families

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Ontonychophora is an extinct order of onychophoran consisting of organisms with simple lobobods 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

References

  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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