Latzelia

Latzelia
Holotype specimen of L. primordialis (USNM 38003), National Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Myriapoda
Class:
Chilopoda
Order:
Scutigeromorpha
Family:
†Latzeliidae
Genus:
†Latzelia

Scudder, 1890
Type species
Latzelia primordialis
Scudder, 1890
1890 illustration by J. H. Emerton

Latzelia is an extinct genus of scutigeromorph centipedes, and the type and only genus of the family Latzeliidae.[1] It existed during the Carboniferous in what is now Illinois (found in Mazon Creek fossil beds).[1] It was described by Samuel Hubbard Scudder in 1890, and the type species, and only known species, is Latzelia primordialis.[2] The genus name honors Austrian zoologist Robert Latzel.[3]

This centipede genus should not be confused with two invalid names applied to millipede genera: the first proposed Bollman in 1893 for a glomeridan species now in the genus Glomeridella, and the second by Verhoeff in 1895 for a genus of chordeumatidans now known as Verhoeffia.[3]

  1. ^ a b Edgecombe, Gregory D. (2011). "Chilopoda - Fossil History". In Alessandro Minelli (ed.). Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda. Brill. p. 356. ISBN 978-9004156111.
  2. ^ Invertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution by Euan Clarkson and Euan, N.K. Clarkson.
  3. ^ a b Brölemann, Henry W. (1895). "Genre Latzelia". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 18: 458–459.