Myriapoda

Myriapods are the members of subphylum Myriapoda, containing arthropods such as millipedes and centipedes. The group contains about 13,000 species, all of them terrestrial.

Myriapoda

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArthropodaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda

Time the record covers

At least 426 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Silurian — about 12 of 487 occurrencesDevonian — about 26 of 487 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 220 of 487 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 12 of 487 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 487 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 487 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 487 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 487 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 487 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 487 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 487 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 74 of 487 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 487 occurrencesEocene — about 49 of 487 occurrencesOligocene — about 8 of 487 occurrencesMiocene — about 56 of 487 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 487 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 487 occurrences442–427 Mya — about 9 occurrences427–412 Mya — about 15 occurrences412–397 Mya — about 5 occurrences397–383 Mya — about 6 occurrences383–368 Mya — about 2 occurrences368–353 Mya — about 5 occurrences353–339 Mya — about 5 occurrences339–324 Mya — about 6 occurrences324–309 Mya — about 122 occurrences309–294 Mya — about 86 occurrences294–280 Mya — about 7 occurrences280–265 Mya — about 1 occurrence265–250 Mya — about 2 occurrences250–235 Mya — about 3 occurrences206–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–177 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences177–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–118 Mya — about 4 occurrences118–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–88 Mya — about 71 occurrences88–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences59–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–29 Mya — about 50 occurrences29–15 Mya — about 56 occurrences15–0 Mya — about 24 occurrences426.7 Mya11.7 ka442 Mya0 Mya

487 occurrences of Myriapoda on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

487 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

72 formations

Carbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WCarbondale — 41.29°N, 88.19°WCarbondale — 41.22°N, 88.21°WKladno — 50.10°N, 13.72°EKladno — 49.71°N, 13.21°EKladno — 50.24°N, 14.30°ECowie — 56.95°N, 2.20°WDundee Flagstone — 57.00°N, 4.00°WDundee Flagstone — 56.67°N, 2.77°WDundee Flagstone — 56.57°N, 2.73°WDundee Flagstone — 56.48°N, 3.12°WDundee Flagstone — 56.77°N, 2.48°WJoggins — 45.70°N, 64.45°WLower Saarbrucker layer — 49.32°N, 7.07°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.28°N, 7.03°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.38°N, 7.25°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.46°N, 7.91°EBallagan — 55.84°N, 2.07°WBallagan — 55.79°N, 2.21°WUpper Saarbrucker layer — 49.26°N, 7.00°EUpper Saarbrucker layer — 49.34°N, 7.17°EUpper Saarbrucker layer — 49.32°N, 7.07°EUpper Saarbrucker layer — 51.01°N, 7.14°EPanther Mountain — 42.43°N, 74.43°WDryden Flags — 57.34°N, 2.85°WDryden Flags — 57.34°N, 2.84°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 51.37°N, 2.73°WBaruungoyot — 43.49°N, 101.13°EBaruungoyot — 43.32°N, 99.83°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WFarrington — 51.30°N, 2.43°WOnyx Marble — 35.10°N, 112.59°WFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WBerthelsdorf — 51.12°N, 12.50°EPennant — 51.71°N, 3.91°WThermalsinterkalk — 48.41°N, 9.55°EDundee — 56.67°N, 2.79°WDundee — 56.77°N, 2.48°WWettin — 51.63°N, 11.95°EGuanling — 24.71°N, 104.33°EGreat Seams — 46.68°N, 4.36°EMaboko — 0.15°N, 34.62°E

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The named rock units Myriapoda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 256 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myriapoda and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Myriapoda and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

6,156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 232 sites for Myriapoda, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

157 references

Each of the 487 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 145 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Myriapoda

Credit
Collage: Animalparty (collage), original authors: see source images.
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Myriapoda was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Latreille 1802)