Glomerida

Glomerida is an order of pill-millipedes found primarily in the Northern Hemisphere. Also known as northern pill millipedes, they superficially resemble pill-bugs or woodlice, and can enroll into a protective ball. Adults in this order usually have twelve body segments ; adult females have 17 pairs of legs, and adult males have 19 leg pairs. The order includes about 30 genera and at least 280 species, including Glomeris marginata, the common European pill-millipede. The order contains members in Europe, South-east Asia and the Americas from California to Guatemala. Although historically considered closely related with the similar sphaerotheriidans that also enroll, some DNA evidence suggest they may be more closely related to glomeridesmidans, a poorly known order that does not enroll.

Glomerida

N. Akkari · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 6 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 6 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences93.9 Mya37.71 Mya102 Mya33 Mya

6 occurrences of Glomerida on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

6 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.

Glomerida and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Glomerida and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

773 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Glomerida, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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. 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 Glomerida

Credit
N. Akkari
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Glomerida 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 itPentazonia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cook 1895)