Symphylurinus undefined-2

Sánchez-García, Alba, Sendra, Alberto, Davis, Steven & Grimaldi, David A., 2023, Fossil diversity in ‘ dawn’ hexapods (Diplura: Projapygoidea), with direct evidence for being chemically predaceous in the Cretaceous, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198 (3), pp. 847-870 : 857

SYMPHYLURINUS SP. 2

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Material: M-2233 ( Figs 12 , 13 ), Ettore Morone collection, Turin, Italy (available through the AMNH), probably female, adult; specimen virtually complete, with the right antenna and cercus cut off at the amber surface, observable laterally (both sides); the piece is a transparent, orange colour, but with internal fractures obscuring details, triangular in shape, 21 mm × 22 mm × 18 mm; syninclusions include a myriapod, some coprolites, fungal hyphae and other undetermined organic remains.

Figures

Figure 12. Specimen of Symphylurinus sp. 2 (M-2233) in Miocene Dominican amber. A, photomicrograph of right lateral habitus. B, camera lucida drawing. Abbreviations: lp, labial palp; scA, lateral subcoxal appendage; stVII, stylus VII. Scale bars: 0.2 mm.

Figure 13. Volume renderings of Symphylurinus sp. 2 (M-2233) in Miocene Dominican amber. A, dorsal habitus. B, ventral habitus. C, left lateral habitus. All to the same scale. Scale bar: 0.5 mm.