| 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.