Arthropleura
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Arthropleura
- Continent
- North America, Europe
- Group
- Invertebrate
- Period
- Carboniferous, Permian
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- Small (1–3 m)
- Moves
- Crawls
- Feature
- Armour
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- It was one of the largest arthropods ever to live on land, a giant relative of millipedes.
- Its head stayed unknown until 2024, when scientists described fossils of young ones found in France.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q131789 · All prehistoric life · All entries