Archidesmus

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Archidesmus
Temporal range: Lower Devonian
Archidesmus macnicoli fossil illustration, anterior end is towards the left.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Archidesmida
Family: Archidesmidae
Scudder
, 1885
Genus: Archidesmus
Peach, 1882
Type species
Archidesmus macnicoli
Species
  • A. macnicoli
  • A. loganensis (debated)

Archidesmus is an extinct

myriapod- is debated.[3]

A. macnicoli illustrations

References

  1. ^ Peach, B. N. (1882). "On some fossil myriapods from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of Forfarshire". Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 7: 177–188.
  2. ^ Peach, B. N. (1899). "On some new myriapods from the Palaeozoic rocks of Scotland". Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 14: 113–126.
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