Giant Millipede Fossil. Arthropleura an enormous myriapod that lived some 326 million years ago Carboniferous period is estimated to have been 55 cm 18 feet in width. The largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede as big as a car has been found on a beach in the north of England.
It may well not actually be the fossil of a dead creature but an exoskeleton that was shed as the massive millipede grew. The millipede that left the fossil was well over 244 m long and may have. Have found the fossilized exoskeleton of the largest arthropod to have ever lived.
According to a press release by the University of Cambridge the largest-ever fossil of a giant millipedeas big as a mid-size carhas been found on a.
The millipede that left the fossil was well over 244 m long and may have. The remains of a created known as Arthropleura dates from around 326 million years ago over 100 million years before the Age of Dinosaurs during the period known as the Carboniferous Period. He largest ever fossil of a giant millipede has been found by a fluke on a Northumberland beach at Howick after a section of cliff fell. The beaches of Northern England have revealed the largest ever giant millipede fossil the size of a car.
