Rhyniella body material and springtail furcula

Multiple chert fragments preserve head, thorax, legs and an abdomen bearing a springtail-like locomotory appendage.

Represented range411–407 Ma

RegionsRhynie Chert, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

CladesHexapoda · Collembola · Rhyniella praecursor

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morphology · medium

Four Rhyniella praecursor head capsules and roughly ten additional Rhynie-chert body specimens, including an abdomen with a springtail-like furcula, support collembolan affinity without establishing the origin, global first appearance or ecology of Hexapoda.

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References

A new assessment of Rhyniella, the earliest known insect, from the Devonian of Rhynie, ScotlandWhalley, P.; Jarzembowski, E.A. · 1981 · DOI 10.1038/291317a0

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