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Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Arthropods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

William A. Shear
William A. Shear*
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Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia 23943, U.S.A.
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When did arthropods first invade the land? Circumstantial evidence based on trace fossils (Retallack and Feakes, 1987) suggests that large animals, possibly arthropods, may have been present on land and burrowing in soils in the Late Ordovician, but this idea is as yet unsupported by body fossil evidence.

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Short Courses in Paleontology , Volume 3: Arthropod Paleobiology , 1990 , pp. 197 - 213
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Copyright © 1990 Paleontological Society 

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