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Polydesmidea

Myriapoda - Polydesmida

Taxonomy

Polydesmidea was named by Pocock (1887). It is extant.

It was assigned to Polydesmida by Santiago-Blay and Poinar (1992), Riquelme and Hernández-Patricio (2018).

Subtaxa

Dasyodontus, Inodesmus, Pyrgodesmoidea, Trichopolydesmoidea

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1887	Polydesmidea Pocock
1992	Polydesmidea Santiago-Blay and Poinar p. 367
2018	Polydesmidea Riquelme and Hernández-Patricio p. 643

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
class	Myriapoda	()
—	Dignatha	Tiegs 1947

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Diplopoda	Gervais 1844
subclass	Chilognatha	()
infraclass	Helminthomorpha	(Pocock 1887)
—	Eugnatha	Attems 1898
superorder	Merochaeta	Cook 1895
order	Polydesmida	Pocock 1887
suborder	Polydesmidea	Pocock 1887
suborder	Polydesmidea	Pocock 1887

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subor. Polydesmidea Pocock 1887

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G. Dasyodontus Loomis 1936

G. Inodesmus Cook 1896

Superfm. Pyrgodesmoidea Silvestri 1896

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Fm. Pyrgodesmidae Silvestri 1896

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G. Docodesmus Cook 1896

†Docodesmus brodzinskyi Shear 1981

G. Iomus Cook 1911

G. Lophodesmus Pocock 1894

G. Myrmecodesmus Silvestri 1910

G. Psochodesmus Cook 1896

Superfm. Trichopolydesmoidea Verhoeff 1910

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Fm. Trichopolydesmidae Verhoeff 1910

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G. Monstrodesmus Golovatch et al. 2014

†Monstrodesmus grimaldii Su et al. 2022

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2004-02-29 09:38:49

Modified:

2004-02-29 11:38:49

Source: p = phylum

Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Early/Lower Miocene or 100.50000 to 15.98000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.9 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Myanmar	Monstrodesmus grimaldii (161726)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	Mexico (Chiapas)	Myrmecodesmus sp. (217216)
Burdigalian - Langhian	20.45 - 13.82	Dominican Republic	Docodesmus brodzinskyi (122473) Docodesmus sp., Iomus sp., Psochodesmus sp., Dasyodontus sp., Inodesmus sp. (122472) Docodesmus sp., Lophodesmus sp., Inodesmus sp. (159268)