Cargando…
A remarkable assemblage of ticks from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber
Four fossil ticks (Arachnida: Parasitiformes: Ixodida) are described from mid-Cretaceous (ca. 100 Ma) Burmese amber of Myanmar. Ixodes antiquorum sp. nov. (Ixodidae) is the first Mesozoic record of Ixodes and the oldest representative of the most species-rich extant tick genus. Its affinities appear...
Autores principales: | , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Cambridge University Press
2022
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10090602/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35241194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182022000269 |
_version_ | 1785022994745131008 |
---|---|
author | Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia Mans, Ben J. Handschuh, Stephan Dunlop, Jason A. |
author_facet | Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia Mans, Ben J. Handschuh, Stephan Dunlop, Jason A. |
author_sort | Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia |
collection | PubMed |
description | Four fossil ticks (Arachnida: Parasitiformes: Ixodida) are described from mid-Cretaceous (ca. 100 Ma) Burmese amber of Myanmar. Ixodes antiquorum sp. nov. (Ixodidae) is the first Mesozoic record of Ixodes and the oldest representative of the most species-rich extant tick genus. Its affinities appear to lie with modern Australian forms, consistent with the hypothesis that Burmese amber hosted Gondwanan faunal elements. Even more remarkable is Khimaira fossus gen. et sp. nov. which combines a body resembling that of a soft tick (Argasidae) with a basis capitulum more like that of a hard tick (Ixodidae). We refer it to Khimairidae fam. nov. as a possible transitional form between the two main families of ticks alive today. Another member of the extinct Deinocrotonidae is described as Deinocroton copia sp. nov., while the first described adult female for Cornupalpatum burmanicum is associated with a dinosaur feather barb. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-10090602 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2022 |
publisher | Cambridge University Press |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-100906022023-04-13 A remarkable assemblage of ticks from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia Mans, Ben J. Handschuh, Stephan Dunlop, Jason A. Parasitology Research Article Four fossil ticks (Arachnida: Parasitiformes: Ixodida) are described from mid-Cretaceous (ca. 100 Ma) Burmese amber of Myanmar. Ixodes antiquorum sp. nov. (Ixodidae) is the first Mesozoic record of Ixodes and the oldest representative of the most species-rich extant tick genus. Its affinities appear to lie with modern Australian forms, consistent with the hypothesis that Burmese amber hosted Gondwanan faunal elements. Even more remarkable is Khimaira fossus gen. et sp. nov. which combines a body resembling that of a soft tick (Argasidae) with a basis capitulum more like that of a hard tick (Ixodidae). We refer it to Khimairidae fam. nov. as a possible transitional form between the two main families of ticks alive today. Another member of the extinct Deinocrotonidae is described as Deinocroton copia sp. nov., while the first described adult female for Cornupalpatum burmanicum is associated with a dinosaur feather barb. Cambridge University Press 2022-05 2022-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10090602/ /pubmed/35241194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182022000269 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia Mans, Ben J. Handschuh, Stephan Dunlop, Jason A. A remarkable assemblage of ticks from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber |
title | A remarkable assemblage of ticks from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber |
title_full | A remarkable assemblage of ticks from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber |
title_fullStr | A remarkable assemblage of ticks from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber |
title_full_unstemmed | A remarkable assemblage of ticks from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber |
title_short | A remarkable assemblage of ticks from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber |
title_sort | remarkable assemblage of ticks from mid-cretaceous burmese amber |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10090602/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35241194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182022000269 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT chitimiadoblerlidia aremarkableassemblageofticksfrommidcretaceousburmeseamber AT mansbenj aremarkableassemblageofticksfrommidcretaceousburmeseamber AT handschuhstephan aremarkableassemblageofticksfrommidcretaceousburmeseamber AT dunlopjasona aremarkableassemblageofticksfrommidcretaceousburmeseamber AT chitimiadoblerlidia remarkableassemblageofticksfrommidcretaceousburmeseamber AT mansbenj remarkableassemblageofticksfrommidcretaceousburmeseamber AT handschuhstephan remarkableassemblageofticksfrommidcretaceousburmeseamber AT dunlopjasona remarkableassemblageofticksfrommidcretaceousburmeseamber |