Paleozercon
Extinct genus of mites
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Paleozercon is an extinct genus of mites in the family Zerconidae.
| Paleozercon Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Mesostigmata |
| Family: | Zerconidae |
| Genus: | †Paleozercon Blaszak, Cokendolpher & Polyak, 1995 |
| Species: | †P. cavernicolus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Paleozercon cavernicolus Blaszak et al., 1995 | |
The sole described species is P. cavernicolus.[1][2] It was the first zerconid species to be recorded from a cave outside of Europe. P. cavernicolus differs from related genera in Zerconidae by lacking a characteristic incision in the peritremal shield and possessing a single pair of setae on the anterior margin of the ventroanal shield. It may have been an oligophagous predator which fed on other mites.[3]
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