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    Pneumodesmus newmani is a species of myriapod that lived during the late Wenlock epoch of the Silurian period around 428 million years ago. Although a...
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    micro-organisms. Millipedes from Cowie Formation such as Cowiedesmus and Pneumodesmus were considered as the oldest millipede from the middle Silurian at 428...
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    First known air-breathing animal to colonise land, the millipede Pneumodesmus newmani, lived in the Early Devonian....
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    resemble myriapods. The oldest unequivocal myriapod fossil species is Pneumodesmus from the late Silurian around 428 million years ago, which is important...
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    Arthropleuridea, which contain the largest known land invertebrates. Pneumodesmus newmani is the earliest member of the millipedes from the late Wenlock...
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  • air-breathing, although not being the oldest myriapod fossil record, is Pneumodesmus, an archipolypodan millipede from the Early Devonian, about 414 Ma. Its...
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    again. This formation preserves fossils, including a millipedes such as Pneumodesmus and Cowiedesmus that were discovered by Mike Newman in 2001, and some...
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    Harbour was the finding place of Pneumodesmus newmani, the oldest fossil of an air-breathing land organism Pneumodesmus. Barony of Cowie Cowie Castle Morthouse...
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  • Scotland, and is considered as earliest known land animals alongside Pneumodesmus from same formation. Although a 2017 study suggested that the geological...
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    a property of the Frasers. A fossil of the oldest known land animal, Pneumodesmus newmani, a species of millipede, was found at Stonehaven's Cowie Beach...
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