Atlas of Myriapod Biogeography. I. Indigenous Ordinal and Supra-Ordinal Distributions in the Diplopoda: Perspectives on Taxon Origins and Ages, and a Hypothesis on the Origin and Early Evolution of the Class

• Main Authors: Shelley, Rowland M., Golavatch, Sergei I.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2011
• Subjects: accretion; Avalonia; Baltica; biogeography; Diplopoda; distribution; Euramerica; “Gondwana I; ” Laurentia; Laurasia; maps; Pannotia; rifting; terrane; Entomology; Arctic; Argentina; Campbell Island; Canada; Hudson; Hudson Bay; New Zealand; Antarc*; Antarctica; Iceland; Siberia
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/677; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/insectamundi/article/1676/viewcontent/0158ShelleyandGolovatch.pdf

The biogeographic significance of Diplopoda is substantiated by 50 maps documenting indigenous occurrences of the 16 orders, the three Spirostreptida s. l. suborders – Cambalidea, Epinannolenidea, Spirostreptidea – and all higher taxa including Diplopoda itself. The class is indigenous to all contin...