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New flat-backed Archipolypodan millipedes from the Upper Devonian of North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2017

Heather M. Wilson ,
Edward B. Daeschler  and
Sylvain Desbiens
Heather M. Wilson
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Kline Geology Laboratory, Yale University, P.O. Box 208109, New Haven, Connecticut 06520,
Edward B. Daeschler
Affiliation:
The Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103,
Sylvain Desbiens
Affiliation:
Parc de Miguasha, 231 Miguasha Ouest, Case postale 183, Nouvelle, Québec GOC 2E0, Canada,
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Abstract

Two new flat-backed archipolypodan millipede taxa, Orsadesmus rubecollus n. gen. and sp. and Zanclodesmus willetti n. gen. and sp., are described from the Upper Devonian of Clinton County, Pennsylvania, and Miguasha, Québec, respectively. These new taxa are placed in the new family Zanclodesmidae within the order Archidesmida. Archidesmida have previously only been described from the United Kingdom, and their presence in North America confirms a geographic continuum in the millipede fauna across the Old Red Sandstone Continent during the Devonian.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 79 , Issue 4 , July 2005 , pp. 738 - 744
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