Chilognatha

Chilognatha is a subclass of the class Diplopoda, which includes the vast majority of extant millipedes, about 12,000 species.

Chilognatha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiplopodaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda

Time the record covers

At least 426 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Silurian — about 10 of 300 occurrencesDevonian — about 15 of 300 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 138 of 300 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 300 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 300 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 300 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 300 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 300 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 300 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 300 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 300 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 46 of 300 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 300 occurrencesEocene — about 21 of 300 occurrencesOligocene — about 8 of 300 occurrencesMiocene — about 41 of 300 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 300 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 300 occurrences442–427 Mya — about 9 occurrences427–412 Mya — about 11 occurrences412–397 Mya — about 2 occurrences397–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–368 Mya — about 1 occurrence368–353 Mya — about 5 occurrences353–339 Mya — about 4 occurrences339–324 Mya — about 2 occurrences324–309 Mya — about 72 occurrences309–294 Mya — about 58 occurrences294–280 Mya — about 6 occurrences280–265 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences250–235 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–88 Mya — about 43 occurrences88–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences59–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–29 Mya — about 22 occurrences29–15 Mya — about 42 occurrences15–0 Mya — about 16 occurrences426.7 Mya11.7 ka442 Mya0 Mya

300 occurrences of Chilognatha 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

300 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

32 formations

Carbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WCarbondale — 41.29°N, 88.19°WCarbondale — 41.22°N, 88.21°WKladno — 49.71°N, 13.21°ECowie — 56.95°N, 2.20°WJoggins — 45.70°N, 64.45°WDundee Flagstone — 56.67°N, 2.77°WDundee Flagstone — 56.57°N, 2.73°WDundee Flagstone — 56.48°N, 3.12°WDundee Flagstone — 56.77°N, 2.48°WBallagan — 55.84°N, 2.07°WBallagan — 55.79°N, 2.21°WBaruungoyot — 43.49°N, 101.13°EBaruungoyot — 43.32°N, 99.83°EPennant — 51.71°N, 3.91°WThermalsinterkalk — 48.41°N, 9.55°EDundee — 56.67°N, 2.79°WDundee — 56.77°N, 2.48°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 51.37°N, 2.73°WLueders — 33.75°N, 99.13°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WOnyx Marble — 35.10°N, 112.59°WSystem B — 19.01°S, 138.67°ESlaný — 50.21°N, 13.68°ESlany — 50.23°N, 14.07°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WCatskill — 41.34°N, 77.68°WEscuminac — 48.11°N, 66.37°WFish Bed — 55.54°N, 3.92°WBattery Point — 48.83°N, 64.34°WCampbellton — 48.04°N, 66.50°WGrès à Voltzia — 48.82°N, 7.24°E

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The named rock units Chilognatha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 152 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chilognatha and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Chilognatha and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

3,861 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 125 sites for Chilognatha, 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

83 references

Each of the 300 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. 71 further references are not listed. 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 Chilognatha

Credit
portioid
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chilognatha 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Latreille 1802)