Latzelia | |
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1890 illustration by J. H. Emerton | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Arthropoda
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Subphylum: | Myriapoda
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Class: | Chilopoda
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Order: | Scutigeromorpha
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Family: | †Latzeliidae
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Genus: | †Latzelia Scudder, 1890
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Type species | |
Latzelia primordialis Scudder, 1890
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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]