… Harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) represent the third most diverse order of arachnids
following … 156 harvestmen fossils were available for this thesis, which are mostly preserved as …

The Opiliones family Neopilionidae is restricted to the terranes of the former temperate
Gondwana: South America, Africa, Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Despite decades …

… regarding the nature of arachnid terrestrialization and arachnid phylogeny more broadly.
To … Here, we review phylogenetic hypotheses of arachnid and scorpion interrelationships, …

… The first two harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from the fossil record of Spain are reported
… The Barremian specimen is considered here as Opiliones indet. because the poor state of …

Echinodermata “spine skin,” a phylum of marine, mostly benthic animals known definitively
from the late Ediacaran to the present, with about 7,000 extant and 13,000 extinct named …

… The first eupnoid harvestmen (Opiliones: Eupnoi) are described … All four living suborders of
Opiliones are now known from … the known species (Arachnida, Opiliones, Nemastomatidae). …

Witham (1833) described remains of similar but older tree trunks from the Tournaisian of
Berwickshire as “Pitus” primaeva Witham and “Pitus” antiqua Witham (often referred to …

Arthropods constitute a highly diverse group of animals dominated by insects, arachnids,
crustaceans and myriapods, the latter consisting of two important classes: Chilopoda and …

Direct fossil preservation of leaf damage, arthropod mouthparts, and vertebrate teeth has
understandably led to a focus on oral processing of plant material when considering the …

Parasite aggregation is a population-based metric in which many hosts harbour few parasites
but some hosts are infected by a large number of parasites. The causes of aggregation are …