Land Animals in the Silurian: Arachnids and Myriapods from Shropshire, England
- 2 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 250 (4981) , 658-661
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.250.4981.658
Abstract
A new assemblage of arthropod cuticles from Upper Silurian rocks in Shropshire, England, includes at least two centipedes and a trigonotarbid arachnid. This unequivocal terrestrial fauna from the Silurian constitutes the earliest direct record of land animals. The presence of predatory arthropods suggests that complex terrestrial ecosystems were in place by the late Silurian (414 × 10 6 years before present) and that the animal invasion of the land occurred earlier than was previously thought.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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