Myriacantherpestes
| Myriacantherpestes Temporal range: Late Carboniferous | |
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| Two illustrations of M. ferox fossils | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Superorder: | †Archipolypoda |
| Order: | †Euphoberiida |
| Family: | †Euphoberiidae |
| Genus: | †Myriacantherpestes Burke, 1979 |
| Type species | |
| Acantherpestes ferox Salter 1863 | |
| Species | |
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M. bradebirksi Burke 1979 | |
Myriacantherpestes is an extinct genus of spiny millipedes from the Pennsylvanian subperiod of the Carboniferous period, known from fossils in Europe and North America.
Description
Like other Euphoberiids, Myriacantherpestes had prominent dorsal and lateral spines. Myriacantherpestes differs from other members of Euphoberiidae in part by having much longer lateral spines.[1]
Taxonomic history
Several species currently assigned to Myriacantherpestes were formerly in the genera Acantherpestes and Euphoberia.[1] The species M. excrescens was originally described as a fossilized cycad seed.[2]
References
- 1 2 Burke, J.J. (1979). "A new millipede genus, Myriacantherpestes (Diplopoda, Archipolypoda), and Myriacantherpestes bradebirksi, new species, from the English UK Coal Measures". Kirtlandia. 30: 1–24.
- ↑ Lemay, Stephen; Hannibal, Joseph T. (2002). "Trigonocarpus excrescens Janssen, 1940, a supposed seed from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois, is a milliped (Diplopoda: Euphoberiidae)". Kirtlandia. 53: 37–40.