Paleozercon is an extinct genus of mites in the family Zerconidae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Mesostigmata |
| Family: | Zerconidae |
| Genus: | †Paleozercon Blaszak, Cokendolpher & Polyak, 1995 |
| Species: | †P. cavernicolus
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| †Paleozercon cavernicolus Blaszak et al., 1995
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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]
References
edit- ^ "Paleozercon". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
- ^ "The Paleobiology Database, genus Paleozercon". Retrieved 2020-01-25.
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Błaszak C, Cokendolpher J, Polyak V (1995). "Paleozercon cavernicolus, n.gen., n.sp., fossil mite from a cave in the Southwestern U.S.A. (Acari, Gamasida: Zerconidae), with a key to Nearctic genera of Zerconidae". International Journal of Acarology. 21 (4): 253–259. doi:10.1080/01647959508684068. S2CID 84777278.
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