Dwarfs under dinosaur legs: a new millipede of the order Callipodida (Diplopoda) from Cretaceous amber of Burma

The entire Mesozoic Era is rather poor in millipede (class Diplopoda) fossils, with less than a dozen species being taxonomically described. Here, we describe the first fossil millipede of the order Callipodida, Burmanopetalum inexpectatum gen. nov. et sp. nov., found in early Cenomanian amber of Bu...

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Main Authors: Pavel Stoev, Leif Moritz, Thomas Wesener
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2019-05-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/34991/download/pdf/