----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 8:56 PM
To: rtravsky@uwyo.edu; dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: RE: 300 MY old Cockroach Fossil Found
Here is the url for the GSA abstract. Note that the giant roach is NOT
_Arthropleura_ (which is a millipede)
I don't think Arthropleura is a millipede, no one knows what athropleurids actually were, but they had completely different appendage and respiratory structure to modern myriapods, HUGE too, up to 2m, left charecteristic 'caterpillar tracks' in Carboniferous sediments from Nova Scotia.
, but is presumably the new genus &
species of insect.
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2001AM/finalprogram/abstract_29041.htm
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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