Early Land Animals in North America: Evidence from Devonian Age Arthropods from Gilboa, New York
Abstract
A new fossil site near Gilboa, New York, is one of only three where fossils of terrestrial arthropods of Devonian age have been found. The new Gilboan fauna is younger than the other two but richer in taxa. Fragmentary remains and nearly whole specimens assigned to Eurypterida, Arachnida (Trigonotarbida, Araneae, Amblypygi, and Acari), Chilopoda [Craterostigmatomorpha(?) and Scuterigeromorpha(?)], and tentatively to Insecta (Archaeognatha) have been found. The centipedes and possible insects may represent the earliest records known for these groups.
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Fragmentary organic remains of arthropods are already known in Cambrian rocks.
“Fragmentary organic remains of arthropods are already known in Cambrian rocks (Mount Cap Formation: Butterfield, 1994: Devonian Gilboa Formation: Shear et al., 1984).”
From The Cambrian evolutionary ‘explosion’: decoupling cladogenesis from morphological disparity (1996) · cites this paper as Shear et al., 1984
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- Authors
- Shear, W. A., Bonamo, P. M., Grierson, J. D., Rolfe, W. D. I., Smith, E. L., & Norton, R. A.
- Affiliations
- American Museum of Natural History (US)
- Binghamton University (US)
- The Hunterian (GB)
- California Academy of Sciences (US)
- State University of New York (US)
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1984-05-04
- Volume
- 224
- Issue
- 4648
- Pages
- 492-494
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2093771956
- Cited by
- 174
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 16.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Fossil Insects in Amber
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Keywords
- Devonian arthropods, terrestrial arthropods, fossil localities, Eurypterida, spiders, Amblypygi, mites, centipedes, Archaeognatha, insects, North America
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