Euphoberia armigera Meek and Worthen 1868 (millipede)

Myriapoda - Euphoberiida - Euphoberiidae

Full reference: F. B. Meek and A. H. Worthen. 1868. Preliminary notice of a scorpion, a Eurypterus? and other fossils from the Coal-measures of Illinois. The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series 46:19-28

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

See also Baldwin 1911, Meek and Worthen 1868, Meek and Worthen 1868, Scudder 1882 and Scudder 1890

Sister taxa: Euphoberia absens, Euphoberia anguilla, Euphoberia brownii, Euphoberia carri, Euphoberia cuspidata, Euphoberia ferox, Euphoberia flabellata, Euphoberia granosa, Euphoberia histrix, Euphoberia horrida, Euphoberia hystricosa, Euphoberia lithanthracis, Euphoberia simplex, Euphoberia spinulosa, Euphoberia tracta, Euphoberia varians

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mazon Creek (University of Illinois collection), which is in a Westphalian D deltaic mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (9: Illinois collections)

Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence

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