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Parachela (tardigrade)

Topic: Biology

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Short description: Order of tardigrades

Parachela
Temporal range: Campanian–Recent[1]
Hypsibius dujardini
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Tardigrada
Class: Eutardigrada
Order: Parachela
Superfamilies and families
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Parachela is an order of tardigrades in the class Eutardigrada. Members of this order have existed for at least 72 million years, including the present. The oldest known species is Beorn leggi.[2]

Superfamilies and families

The order includes the following superfamilies and families:

References

  1. ↑ Budd, G. (2001). "Tardigrades as 'Stem-Group Arthropods': The Evidence from the Cambrian Fauna". Zoologischer Anzeiger 240 (3–4): 265–279. doi:10.1078/0044-5231-00034. ISSN 0044-5231. 
  2. ↑ Cooper, Kenneth W. (1964). "The First Fossil Tardigrade: Beorn Leggi Cooper, From Cretaceous Amber". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 71 (2): 41–48. doi:10.1155/1964/48418. 

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