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Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Arthropods
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 July 2017
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When did arthropods first invade the land? Circumstantial evidence based on trace fossils (Retallack and Feakes, 1987) suggests that large animals, possibly arthropods, may have been present on land and burrowing in soils in the Late Ordovician, but this idea is as yet unsupported by body fossil evidence.
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