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Science 4 May 1984:
Vol. 224. no. 4648, pp. 492 - 494
DOI: 10.1126/science.224.4648.492
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Early Land Animals in North America: Evidence from Devonian Age Arthropods from Gilboa, New York

WILLIAM A. SHEAR 1, PATRICIA M. BONAMO 2, JAMES D. GRIERSON 2, W. D. IAN ROLFE 3, EDWARD LAIDLAW SMITH 4, and ROY A. NORTON 5

1 Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia 23943, and American Museum of Natural History, New York 10024
2 Department of Biology, State University of New York, Binghamton 13901
3 Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ United Kingdom
4 California Academy of Sciences and Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132
5 College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse 13210

A new fossil site near Gilboa, New York, is one of only three where fossils of terrestrial arthropods of Devonian age have been found. The new Gilboan fauna is younger than the other two but richer in taxa. Fragmentary remains and nearly whole specimens assigned to Eurypterida, Arachnida (Trigonotarbida, Araneae, Amblypygi, and Acari), Chilopoda [Craterostigmatomorpha(?) and Scuterigeromorpha(?)], and tentatively to Insecta (Archaeognatha) have been found. The centipedes and possible insects may represent the earliest records known for these groups.

Submitted on November 8, 1983
Accepted on February 23, 1984


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