Eopauropus

Eopauropus balticus is a prehistoric pauropod known from mid-Eocene Baltic amber.[1] It is the only known pauropod in the fossil record.[2][3] As pauropods are normally soil-dwelling, their presence in amber (fossilized tree sap) is unusual, and they are the rarest known animals in Baltic amber.[4]

Eopauropus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Pauropoda
Order: Tetramerocerata
Family: Pauropodidae
Genus: †Eopauropus
Scheller, 2001
Species:
†E. balticus
Binomial name
†Eopauropus balticus
Scheller, 2001

References
  1. Scheller, U; Wunderlich, J. (2001). "First description of a fossil pauropod, Eopauropus balticus n. gen. n. sp. (Pauropoda: Pauropodidae), in Baltic amber". Mitteilungen des geologischpaläon-tologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Hamburg. 85: 221–227.
  2. Scheller, Ulf (2008). "A reclassification of the Pauropoda (Myriapoda)". International Journal of Myriapodology. 1 (1): 1–38. doi:10.1163/187525408X316730.
  3. David Grimaldi; Michael S. Engel (2005). Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-107-26877-7.
  4. Weitschat, Wolfgang; Wichard, Wilfried (2010). "Baltic amber". In Penney, David (ed.). Biodiversity of Fossils in Amber from the Major World Deposits. Siri Scientific Press. pp. 91–. ISBN 978-0-9558636-4-6.


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