Ontonychophora

Ontonychophora; Temporal range: Carboniferous–Neogene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Onychophora
Class:	Udeonychophora
Order:	†Ontonychophora; Poinar, 2000
Families
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Ontonychophora is an extinct order of onychophoran consisting of organisms with simple lobopods that lack terminal feet.[1] It includes all fossil onychophorans except †Cretoperipatus, which is in the Euonychophora along with all remaining members of the phylum.

Families

†Helenodoridae

†Tertiapatoidea

†Tertiapatidae
†Succinipatopsidae

References

Poinar, G. Jr. (2000). "Fossil Onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic Amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n.g., n.sp. (Tertiapatidae n.fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n.g., n.sp. (Succinipatopsidae n.fam.) with a Proposed Classification of the Subphylum Onychophora". Invertebrate Biology. 119 (1): 104–9. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00178.x.

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[Jr2000-1] Poinar, G. Jr. (2000). "Fossil Onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic Amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n.g., n.sp. (Tertiapatidae n.fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n.g., n.sp. (Succinipatopsidae n.fam.) with a Proposed Classification of the Subphylum Onychophora". Invertebrate Biology. 119 (1): 104–9. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00178.x.