Myriapoda

Searched as Myriapoda indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Myriapoda as the accepted name.

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 412 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Silurian — about 0 of 12 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 12 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 7 of 12 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 12 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 12 occurrences428–414 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences414–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–314 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences314–300 Mya — about 5 occurrences300–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence413.02 Mya129 ka428 Mya0 Mya

12 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

12 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

7 formations

Wild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WMaboko — 0.15°N, 34.62°EDundee Flagstone — 57.00°N, 4.00°WMadera — 35.00°N, 106.34°WEast Kirkton Limestone — 55.95°N, 3.20°WTambach — 50.81°N, 10.62°EGreat Seams — 46.68°N, 4.36°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. 2 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

11 references

Each of the 12 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. 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itArthropoda through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

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