First Mesozoic scutigeromorph centipede, from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil

44 3 Mon, 01/01/2001 - 12:00 May 489 495 10.1111/1475-4983.00188

WILSON, H. M. 2001. First Mesozoic scutigeromorph centipede, from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Palaeontology, 44, 3, 489–495.

Heather M. Wilson 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. Wiley Online Library