Acantherpestes gigas Fritsch 1895 (millipede)

Myriapoda - Euphoberiida - Euphoberiidae

Full reference: A. Fritsch. 1895. Vorläufiger Bericht über die Arthropoden und Mollusken der böhmische Permformation. Sitzungsberichte der Königlich-Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 1894(36):1-4

Belongs to Acantherpestes according to S. Štamberg and J. Zajíc 2008

See also Fritsch 1895 and Fritsch 1899

Sister taxa: Acantherpestes foveolatus, Acantherpestes inequalis, Acantherpestes major, Acantherpestes ornatus, Acantherpestes vicinus

Type specimen: CGH Me 5 (cast). Its type locality is Nýřany (Insect Collection), which is in a Moscovian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Kladno Formation of the Czech Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Nýřany (Insect Collection)

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