Genus: Palaeoblossia Dunlop, Wunderlich and Poinar, 2004 | Family: Daesiidae Kraepelin, 1899 | Order: Solifugae Sundevall, 1833

† Palaeoblossia groehni Dunlop, Wunderlich and Poinar, 2004

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Palaeoblossia groehni

CAINOZOIC: Eocene

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:55ee2df4-cc7f-41ec-b6e9-6744414b255d

Genus type of Palaeoblossia Dunlop, Wunderlich and Poinar, 2004

Taxonomic references

Palaeoblossia groehni

Dunlop, Wunderlich and Poinar, 2004: 271, figs 3–6 original description
Harms and Dupérré, 2018: 27, fig. 14
Santana, Pinheiro and Silva, 2024: 2, table 2

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Europe

Russia Baltic amber (Eocene)
Type locality: Baltic amber, central Europe, possibly near Kaliningrad, Kaliningradskaya Oblast', Russia (Tertiary: Eocene).

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Kaliningrad 54.7 20.5
Type repository
  • Holotype Geological-Paleontological Museum Hamburg Male (No. 4312)
References

Dunlop, J.A., Wunderlich, J. & Poinar, G.O., Jr (2004). The first fossil opilioacariform mite (Acari: Opilioacariformes) and the first Baltic amber camel spider (Solifugae). Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences 94: 261–273. -- Show included taxa

Harms, D. & Dupérré, N. (2018). An annotated type catalogue of the camel spiders (Arachnida: Solifugae) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Zootaxa 4375(1): 001–058. doi: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4375.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Santana, W., Pinheiro, A.P. & Silva, T.A. (2024). Description of a new fossil Thelyphonida (Arachnida, Uropygi) and further record of Cratosolpuga wunderlichi Selden, in Selden and Shear, 1996 (Arachnida, Solifugae) from Crato Formation (Aptian/Albian), Araripe Basin, Brazil. PeerJ: 1-20. doi: 10.7717/peerj.16670 -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2024-02-26 New taxonomic reference entry Santana, Pinheiro and Silva, 2024
2022-09-28 New taxonomic reference entry Harms and Dupérré, 2018
2022-09-28 Species updated Old value