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A basal relationship to the hard and soft tick families and its limited distribution suggested an origin for ticks in the Afrotropics. The Deinocrotonidae has been found in Burmese amber from Myanmar and Iberian amber from Spain, suggesting a wider distribution of the lineage composed of Deinocrotonidae and Nuttalliellidae. The current study describes 8 fossils from mid-Cretaceous (ca. 100 Ma) Burmese amber: 2 <jats:italic>Deinocroton<\/jats:italic> species (<jats:italic>Deinocroton bicornis<\/jats:italic> sp. nov.; <jats:italic>Deinocroton lacrimus<\/jats:italic> sp. nov.), 5 <jats:italic>Nuttalliella<\/jats:italic> species (<jats:italic>Nuttalliella gratae<\/jats:italic> sp. nov., <jats:italic>Nuttalliella tuberculata<\/jats:italic> sp. nov., <jats:italic>Nuttalliella placaventrala<\/jats:italic> sp. nov., <jats:italic>Nuttalliella odyssea<\/jats:italic> sp. nov., <jats:italic>Nuttalliella tropicasylvae<\/jats:italic> sp. nov.) and a new genus and species (<jats:italic>Legionaris<\/jats:italic> nov. gen., <jats:italic>Legionaris robustus<\/jats:italic> sp. nov.). The argument is advanced that <jats:italic>Deinocroton<\/jats:italic> do not warrant its own family, but forms part of the Nuttalliellidae comprising 3 genera, <jats:italic>Deinocroton<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Legionaris<\/jats:italic> nov. gen. and <jats:italic>Nuttalliella<\/jats:italic>). Affinities of Burmese tick fossils to the Australasian region, specifically related to rifting of the Burma terrane from northern Australia ~150 million years ago, suggest that <jats:italic>Nuttalliella<\/jats:italic> had a much wider distribution than its current limited distribution. The distribution of <jats:italic>Nuttalliella<\/jats:italic> likely stretched from Africa over Antarctica and much of Australia, suggesting that extant members of this family may still be found in Australia. Considerations for the geographic origins of ticks conclude that an Afrotropic origin can as yet not be discarded.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0031182024000477","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,16]],"date-time":"2024-04-16T08:21:01Z","timestamp":1713255661000},"page":"891-907","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Nuttalliellidae in Burmese amber: implications for tick evolution"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"151","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8544-1945","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lidia","family":"Chitimia-Dobler","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Stephan","family":"Handschuh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0179-6640","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jason 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