A second camel spider (Arachnida: Solifugae) from Baltic amber
Authors
Jason A. Dunlop
Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-10115 Berlin
Anja E. Klann
2Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Zoological Institute & Museum, Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Straße 11/12, 17489 Greifswald
Keywords:
Arachnida, Solifugae, Eocene
Abstract
Fossil camel spiders (Arachnida: Solifugae) are extremely rare and only the second example ever recovered from Baltic amber (Paleogene: Eocene) is described here.Although superficially well preserved and more than twice the size of the previously known Baltic amber specimen, key taxonomic characters allowing meaningful comparisons to the other fossil and living material cannot, unfortunately, be resolved. It is formally treated here as Solifugae gen. et sp. indet., although we concede that it could be an adult of the previously recorded Baltic amber species Palaeoblossia groehni Dunlop,Wunderlich and Poinar, 2004.
