Eopauropus balticus is a prehistoric pauropod known from mid-Eocene Baltic amber.[1] It is the only known pauropod in the fossil record.[2][3] As pauropods are normally soil-dwelling, their presence in amber (fossilized tree sap) is unusual, and they are the rarest known animals in Baltic amber.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Pauropoda |
| Order: | Tetramerocerata |
| Family: | Pauropodidae |
| Genus: | †Eopauropus Scheller, 2001 |
| Species: | †E. balticus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Eopauropus balticus Scheller, 2001
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References
edit- ^ Scheller, U; Wunderlich, J. (2001). "First description of a fossil pauropod, Eopauropus balticus n. gen. n. sp. (Pauropoda: Pauropodidae), in Baltic amber". Mitteilungen des geologischpaläon-tologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Hamburg. 85: 221–227.
- ^ Scheller, Ulf (2008). "A reclassification of the Pauropoda (Myriapoda)". International Journal of Myriapodology. 1 (1): 1–38. doi:10.1163/187525408X316730.
- ^ David Grimaldi; Michael S. Engel (2005). Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-107-26877-7.
- ^ Weitschat, Wolfgang; Wichard, Wilfried (2010). "Baltic amber". In Penney, David (ed.). Biodiversity of Fossils in Amber from the Major World Deposits. Siri Scientific Press. pp. 91–. ISBN 978-0-9558636-4-6.
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