Invertebrate
Arthropleura
It has been proposed that it consumed vegetation and decaying plant matter.
Arthropleura was a giant relative of millipedes and could exceed two meters.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Arthropleura at a glance
- Diet
- Plant material (probable)
- It is interpreted as eating vegetation or decaying plant matter; its full diet is not known.
- When it lived
- Carboniferous / Permian
- Group
- Myriapoda
- Myriapods
- Fossil locations
- France
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Arthropleura
It was a myriapod related to millipedes and could exceed two meters. It is known both from body remains and from large footprints.
It has been proposed that it consumed vegetation and decaying plant matter. In addition to remains of the body, traces of footprints are preserved. Tracks allow us to study the passage of an animal even when its bones or plates are not left in the same place.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.A note on the science
It has been proposed that it consumed vegetation and decaying plant matter. In addition to remains of the body, traces of footprints are preserved. Tracks allow us to study the passage of an animal even when its bones or plates are not left in the same place.
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- Myriapoda
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