Scolopendromorpha

Scolopendromorpha is an order of centipedes also known as tropical centipedes or bark centipedes. This order includes about 700 species in five families. These centipedes are found nearly worldwide, with tropical and subtropical regions providing the richest diversity in species. This order includes the only known amphibious centipedes, Scolopendra cataracta, Scolopendra paradoxa, and Scolopendra alcyona.

Scolopendromorpha

Marshal Hedin · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
EpimorphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda

Time the record covers

At least 302 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 309.8 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 14 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 14 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 14 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences316–305 Mya — about 1 occurrence284–274 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–253 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–105 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences105–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence307.4 Mya5.333 Mya316 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Scolopendromorpha 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

14 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

5 formations

Crato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EPoldarsa — 60.61°N, 45.62°EKoshelevka — 57.03°N, 57.72°ECarbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°W

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The named rock units Scolopendromorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scolopendromorpha and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,462 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Scolopendromorpha, 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

10 references

Each of the 14 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 Scolopendromorpha

Credit
Marshal Hedin
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Scolopendromorpha 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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What may have been alongside itEpimorpha through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.