Eoarthropleura

Eoarthropleura was a genus of millipede-like creatures which lived between the Late Silurian and Late Devonian periods. It reached 100 mm (3.9 in) in length. Fossils, mainly of cuticle fragments, have been found in Europe and North America. It is the earliest known member of the Arthropleuridea, and the oldest known terrestrial animal of North America.

No picture of Eoarthropleura was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eoarthropleura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonian411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences377–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399.5 Mya382.31 Mya411.4 Mya371.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Eoarthropleura on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

2 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

1 formation

Onteora red beds — 42.38°N, 74.27°W

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The named rock units Eoarthropleura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eoarthropleura and its relatives

Devonian

Where Eoarthropleura and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eoarthropleura, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Eoarthropleura was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eoarthropleura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eoarthropleura was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itArthropleuridae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Størmer 1976