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Trypanosoma antiquum
Trypanosoma antiquum Poinar Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis., 5(1): 78. 2005
- Name
- Trypanosoma antiquum
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Trypanosoma
- Authors (Pub.)
- Poinar G. O.
- Publication
- Triatoma dominicana sp. n. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae), and Trypanosoma antiquus sp. n. (Stercoraria: Trypanosomatidae), the first fossil evidence of a triatomine-trypanosomatid vector association [2005]
- Journal
- Vector borne and zoonotic diseases
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 78
- Year
- 2005
- Fossil Status
- bodies
- Stratigraphy
- Miocene
- Strat. comment
- in amber; 22.5–26.0 Ma = Late Oligocene-Early Miocene
- Location
- La Toca mine, between the cities of Puerto Plata and Santiago surrounding the
Cordillera Septentrional mountain range, northern Dominican Republic
- Paleoregion
- America (Caribbean)
Data for Not defined
- Repository
- Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
- Repository Number
- Poinar amber collection (accession no. P-3-3): "Specimens: Metatrypanosomes in fecal droplet of fossil triatomine bug in Dominican amber"
