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Foainites icelus
Foainites icelus Poinar Parasites & Vectors, 2(12): 6. 18 Feb 2009
- Name
- Foainites icelus
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Foainites
- Authors (Pub.)
- Poinar G. O.
- Publication
- Description of an early Cretaceous termite (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) and its associated intestinal protozoa, with comments on their co-evolution [2009/2]
- Journal
- Parasites & Vectors
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 12
- Page number
- 6
- Year
- 2009
- Fossil Status
- bodies
- Stratigraphy
- Cenomanian
- Strat. comment
- 98,79 ± 0,62; in amber
- Location
- Amber mine, Hukawng Valley, southwest of Maingkhwan, Kachin state (26°20'N, 96°36'E), Myanmar (Burma)
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Indochina)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
- Repository Number
- Specimen (accession # B-I-2), Poinar Collection
- Diagnosis
- Length, 31 μm; width, 23 μm; length of longest flagellum, 24 μm; parabasal body rod-shaped; axostyle not protruding from body.
