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Paleozercon Temporal range: late Pleistocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Mesostigmata
Family:	Zerconidae
Genus:	†Paleozercon Blaszak, Cokendolpher & Polyak, 1995
Species:	†P. cavernicolus
Binomial name
†Paleozercon cavernicolus Blaszak et al., 1995

Paleozercon is an extinct genus of mites in the family Zerconidae.

The sole described species is P. cavernicolus. It was the first zerconid species to be recorded from a cave outside of Europe. P. cavernicolus differs from related genera in Zerconidae by lacking a characteristic incision in the peritremal shield and possessing a single pair of setae on the anterior margin of the ventroanal shield. It may have been an oligophagous predator which fed on other mites.

References

1. "Paleozercon". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
2. "The Paleobiology Database, genus Paleozercon". Retrieved 2020-01-25.
3. Błaszak C, Cokendolpher J, Polyak V (1995). "Paleozercon cavernicolus, n.gen., n.sp., fossil mite from a cave in the Southwestern U.S.A. (Acari, Gamasida: Zerconidae), with a key to Nearctic genera of Zerconidae". International Journal of Acarology. 21 (4): 253–259. doi:10.1080/01647959508684068. S2CID 84777278.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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