The fossil is likely from the Carboniferous Period, about 326 million years ago—long before the Age of Dinosaurs
Unlike the cool and wet weather associated with the region today, Northumberland had a more tropical climate in the Carboniferous Period, when Great Britain lay near the Equator. Invertebrates and early amphibians lived off the scattered vegetation around a series of creeks and rivers. The specimen identified by the researchers was found in a fossilized river channel.
The fossil was brought back to Cambridge so that it could be examined in detail. It was compared with all previous records and revealed new information about the animal's habitat and evolution. The animal can be seen to have only existed in places that were once located at the Equator, such as Great Britain during the Carboniferous.
fossils, both from Germany, and both much smaller than the new specimen. Although this is the largest"Finding these giant millipede fossils is rare, because once they died, their bodies tend to disarticulate, so it's likely that the fossil is a molted carapace that the animal shed as it grew," said Davies."We have not yet found a fossilized head, so it's difficult to know everything about them.
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