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Archidesmida

Archidesmida
Temporal range: Devonian
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Archidesmus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Subclass: Chilognatha
Superorder: Archipolypoda
Order: Archidesmida
Wilson & Anderson 2004
Families

Archidesmidae
Zanclodesmidae


Archidesmidae
Zanclodesmidae

The Archidesmida is an extinct order of millipedes known from fossils from the Devonian period of Europe and North America. Archidesmidans have broad flat keels (paranota) extending from their body segments, and a modified pair of legs on the 8th segment that may have been involved in mating, similar to the gonopods of living millipedes which insert sperm into females. Alternately, the modified legs may have been used to grasp onto partners during mating.


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