Palaeosoma giganteum Baldwin 1911

Myriapoda - Palaeosomatida - Palaeosomatidae

Alternative combination: Acantherpestes giganteus

Full reference: W. Baldwin. 1911. Fossil myriopods from the Middle Coal-Measures of Spath Bottoms, Rochdale, Lancashire. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade V 8:74-80

Belongs to Palaeosoma according to J. W. Jackson et al. 1919

See also Baldwin 1911

Sister taxon: Palaeosoma robustum

Type specimen: MM L9941. Its type locality is Sparth Bottoms, Rochdale (MM coll), which is in a Westphalian A delta plain shale in the United Kingdom.

Distribution: found only at Sparth Bottoms, Rochdale (MM coll)

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