Millipedes (Class Diplopoda)

Modern millipedes are familiar household visitors that live in basements and gardens in very moist places. They eat mostly dead plant material, acting as major recyclers, so were likely an important part of the ancient Florissant ecosystem. Three-hundred million-year-old fossil myriapods, such as Arthopleura, have been found that were over 6 feet long and 3 feet wide!

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