Biology:Eoarthropleura

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Short description: Extinct genus of many-legged arthropods


Eoarthropleura
Temporal range: Pridoli–Frasnian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Subphylum:
Myriapoda
Class:
Subclass:
Order:
Eoarthropleurida

Shear & Selden, 1995
Family:
Eoarthropleuridae

Størmer, 1976
Genus:
Eoarthropleura

Størmer, 1976
Species

E. devonica Størmer, 1976
E. hueberi Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986
E. ludfordensis Shear & Selden, 1995

Synonyms
  • Tiphoscorpio Kjellesvig-Waering, 1986

Eoarthropleura was a genus of millipede-like creatures which lived between the Late Silurian and Late Devonian periods.[1] It reached 100 mm (3.9 in) in length.[2] Fossils, mainly of cuticle fragments, have been found in Europe (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and Shropshire, England) and North America (New York, USA and New Brunswick, Canada).[1] It is the earliest known member of the Arthropleuridea, and the oldest known terrestrial animal of North America.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 William Shear & Paul Selden (1995). "Eoarthropleura (Arthropoda, Arthropleurida) from the Silurian of Britain and the Devonian of North America". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 196 (3): 347–375. http://www.paulselden.net/uploads/7/5/3/2/7532217/eoarthropleura.pdf. 
  2. Robert P. Lynch (1981). New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 1981. Science Information Division, DSIR. p. 639. https://books.google.com/books?id=RNk4AAAAIAAJ&dq=Eoarthropleura+size&pg=PA639. Retrieved 2022-08-21. 

Wikidata ☰ Q989964 entry