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Woodesmidae ✝
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| Rank | family (PBDB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Myriapoda : Woodesmidae | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 359 - 347 Ma Paleozoic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 359 - 347 Ma Paleozoic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | actively mobile (based on Arthropoda) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | A. J. Ross, G. D. Edgecombe, and N. D. L. Clark. 2018. Systematic palaeontology, in A new terrestrial millipede fauna of earliest Carboniferous (Tournaisian) age from southeastern Scotland helps fill 'Romer’s Gap'. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 108:99-110 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Woodesmus ✝ genus | listed (PBDB) | 2 | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 2018 | Woodesmidae Ross et al. p. 102 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
