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Solifugae

 node name
Solifugae     Look for this name in NCBI   Wikipedia   Animal Diversity Web
 
  recommended citations
Wolfe et al. 2016
 
  node minimum age
112.6 Ma
This fossil was recovered from the Nova Olinda Member of the Crato Formation in the Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil. This unit is generally agreed to be around the Aptian/Albian border (Martill et al., 2007). Batten (2007) suggests that if assemblages in the upper layers are consistent across the lower layers, a late Aptian date should be considered.The Crato formation has been dated using palynomorphs (Pons et al.,1990) to the Aptian, though an accurate date for the Nova Olinda Memberis not available. The upper boundary of the Aptian, at 113.0 Ma ±0.4 Myr, gives a minimum date of 112.6 Ma.
 
  node maximum age
514 Ma
A soft maximum constraint comes from the oldest chelicerate W. barbarahardyae from the Emu Bay Shale on Kangaroo Island, SouthAustralia, which has been correlated based on trilobite biostratigraphy to the upper part of the P. janeae Zone in mainland South Australia (Jell in Bengtson et al., 1990; Fig. 2 in Jago et al., 2012). As this is equivalent to the Canglangpuan Stage in South China and the late Botoman inSiberia (Gehling et al., 2011, Fig. 9), the Emu Bay Shale can be dated to Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4, providing a maximum age of ~514 Ma.
 
 primary fossil used to date this node 
 
SMNK 1268 PAL
Cratosolpuga wunderlichi, Selden and Shear, 1996
Location relative to the calibrated node: Crown

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     Locality: Araripe Basin
     Stratum: Nova Olinda Member of the Crato Formation
     Geological age: Cretaceous, Mesozoic


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  phylogenetic justification
C. wunderlichi was assigned to the extant family Ceromidae on the basis of shape of the cheliceral flagellum, shape of the propeltidium, eye tubercle, and leg spination (Selden and Shear, 1996). Only a single tarsal segment is present on the legs (Selden and Shear, 1996). A position in total-group Ceromidae would therefore be within crown-group Solifugae.
 
  phylogenetic reference(s)
Selden, P.A., Shear, W.A., 1996. The first Mesozoic Solifugae (Arachnida), from the Cretaceous of Brazil, and a redescription of the Palaeozoic solifuge. Palaeontology 39, 583–604.
 
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tree image
Figure 4 from Wolfe et al. (2016).
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