Myriacantherpestes | |
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A historical restoration of a Acantherpestes ferox fossil | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
Class: | Diplopoda |
Superorder: | †Archipolypoda |
Order: | †Euphoberiida |
Family: | †Euphoberiidae |
Genus: | †Myriacantherpestes Burke, 1979 |
Type species | |
†Acantherpestes ferox Salter, 1863 | |
Referred species | |
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Myriacantherpestes is an extinct genus of spiny millipedes from the Pennsylvanian subperiod of the Carboniferous period, known from fossils in Europe and North America.
Taxonomic History[]
Several species currently assigned to Myriacantherpestes were formerly in the genera Acantherpestes and Euphoberia. The species Myriacantherpestes excrescens was originally described as a fossilized cycad seed.
Description[]
Like other Euphoberiids, Myriacantherpestes had prominent dorsal and lateral spines. Myriacantherpestes differs from other members of Euphoberiidae in part by having much longer lateral spines.