Article: First Mesozoic scutigeromorph centipede, from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil
Publication: Palaeontology
Volume:
44
Part:
3
Publication Date:
May
2001
Page(s):
489
–
495
Author(s):
Heather M. Wilson
Abstract
The first Mesozoic scutigeromorph centipede (Myriapoda: Chilopoda), Fulmenocursor tenax gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Crato Formation of north-east Brazil. Previously described fossil Scutigeromorpha are known from Dominican and Baltic amber, the Carboniferous (Westphalian D) Francis Creek Shale of Mazon Creek, Illinois, the Silurian and Devonian of Britain, and the Devonian of New York State.