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New flat-backed archipolypodan millipedes from the Upper Devonian of North America
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New flat-backed archipolypodan millipedes from the Upper Devonian of North America

Heather M. Wilson, Edward B. Daeschler and Sylvain Desbiens
Journal of paleontology, v 79(4), pp 738-744
01 Jul 2005

Abstract

Archidesmida Arthropoda biogeography Bonaventure County Quebec Canada Catskill Formation Clinton County Pennsylvania Devonian Diplopoda Duncannon Member Eastern Canada Escuminac Formation Famennian Invertebrata Invertebrate paleontology Mandibulata Miguasha National Park morphology Myriapoda new taxa Orsadesmus Orsedesmus rubecollus Paleozoic Pennsylvania Quebec taxonomy United States Upper Devonian upper Famennian Zanclodesmidae Zanclodesmus Zanclodesmus willetti
Two new flat-backed archipolypodan millipede taxa, Orsadesmus rubecollus n. gen. and sp. and Zanclodesmus willetti n. gen. and sp., are described from the Upper Devonian of Clinton County, Pennsylvania, and Miguasha, Quebec, respectively. These new taxa are placed in the new family Zanclodesmidae within the order Archidesmida. Archidesmida have previously only been described from the United Kingdom, and their presence in North America confirms a geographic continuum in the millipede fauna across the Old Red Sandstone Continent during the Devonian.

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