Genus: Cushingia Dunlop, Bird, Brookhart and Bechly, 2015 | Family: Incertae sedis n/a, n/a | Order: Solifugae Sundevall, 1833

† Cushingia ellenbergeri Dunlop, Bird, Brookhart and Bechly, 2015

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Cushingia ellenbergeri

MESOZOIC: Lower Cretaceous (Albian)

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:911658bf-90ef-4562-a0da-ae9fb64ac56d

Genus type of Cushingia Dunlop, Bird, Brookhart and Bechly, 2015

Taxonomic references

Cushingia ellenbergeri

Dunlop, Bird, Brookhart and Bechly, 2015: 270–271, figs 2–6 original description
Selden and Ren, 2017: 329, 336, table 1
Santana, Pinheiro and Silva, 2024: 2, table 2

Cushingia cf. ellenbergeri Dunlop, Bird, Brookhart and Bechly, 2015:

Selden and Ren, 2017: 336, fig. 11a-b
Bartel, Dunlop and Bird, 2016: 161-164, figs 1-3

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Asia

Myanmar (Cretaceous: Cenomanian)
Type locality: Hukawng Valley, Kachin, Myanmar (amber fossil, Lower Cretaceous: Albian).

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 26.5 96.58305556
Type repository
  • Holotype Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (SMNS Bu-161)
References

Bartel, C., Dunlop, J.A. & Bird, T.L. (2016). The second camel spider (Arachnida: Solifugae) from Burmese Amber. Arachnology 17: 161–164. doi: https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2006.17.3.161 -- Show included taxa

Dunlop, J.A., Bird, T.L., Brookhart, J.O. & Bechly, G. (2015). A camel spider from Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 56: 265–273. -- Show included taxa

Selden, P.A. & Ren, D. (2017). A review of Burmese amber arachnids. Journal of Arachnology 45: 324–343. -- 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
2023-01-12 New taxonomic reference entry Bartel, Dunlop and Bird, 2016
2022-10-21 Species updated Old value
2022-09-13 Taxonomic reference update Selden and Ren, 2017
2022-09-13 New taxonomic reference entry Selden and Ren, 2017
2022-09-13 New taxonomic reference entry Selden and Ren, 2017