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Arthropleura (Greek for 'jointed ribs') is an extinct genus of massive myriapod that lived in what is now Europe and North America around 345 to 290 million years ago, [2] [4] from the Viséan stage of the lower Carboniferous Period to the Sakmarian stage of the lower Permian Period.
Archipolypoda is an extinct group of millipedes known from fossils in Europe and North America and containing the earliest known land animals. [1] The Archipolypoda was erected by Scudder (1882) [ 2 ] but redefined in 2005 with the description of several new species from Scotland . [ 3 ]
83 to 169 are extinct or extinct in the wild: 81 extinct (EX) species [d] ... Badplaas black millipede (Doratogonus furculifer) Strong black millipede ...
Xyloiuloidea is an extinct superfamily of millipedes that existed from the Lower Devonian through the Upper Pennsylvanian period in Europe and North America.
Euphoberiidae is an extinct family of archipolypodan millipedes known from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Europe and North America. The family includes relatively large millipedes measuring up to 30 cm (12 in) [ 1 ] long bearing distinctive spines and were the dominant millipedes of the Pennsylvanian.
Although the name "millipede" is a compound word formed from the Latin roots millia ("thousand") and pes (gen. pedis) ("foot"), millipedes typically have between 36 and 400 legs. In 2021, however, was described Eumillipes persephone , the first species known to have 1,000 or more legs, possessing 1,306 of them. [ 28 ]
Arthropleuridea is an extinct subclass of myriapod arthropods that flourished during the Carboniferous period, having first arisen during the Silurian, and perishing in the Early Permian. [1] Members are characterized by possessing diplosegement (fused "double segments", as in modern-day millipedes ) paranotal tergal lobes separated from the ...
4 Millipedes. 5 Entognatha. 6 Maxillopoda. 7 Malacostracans. 8 Insects. 9 See also. ... Extinct species. Liocypris grandis (listed as extinct however was rediscovered ...