The 410–0 Ma Acari display begins with the oldest securely accepted reviewed mite record and remains a broad fossil-to-living envelope rather than a consensus crown age.
claim:taxon:acari:fossil-rangeMites as fossils: forever small?
Sidorchuk, E.A.
Year2018
Source rolesystematic-review
DOI / ID10.1080/01647954.2018.1497085
Fitness and scope
taxonomy · range · morphology
Review catalogs more than 260 mite fossils from approximately 410 Ma onward and rejects unsupported Ordovician and Permian assignments.