Its name means “progenitor scorpion hunter,” and it lived during the early Silurian period sometime between 437.5 and 436.5 million years ago.

Yale paleontologist Derek Briggs was part of a research team that identified Thanahita distos, a new species of lobopodian, an ancient relative of modern-day onychophorans, or velvet worms. Thanahita ...

A newly discovered fossil “treasure hoard” dating back some 436 million years to the early Silurian period reveals, for the first time, the complete body shape and form of some of the first ...

The Paleozoic era's Silurian period saw animals and plants finally emerge on land. But first there was a period of biological regrouping following the disastrous climax to the Ordovician. A ...

Conodonts from the Silurian of Iran Silurian conodonts of Iran collected by Dr Vachik Hairapetian (Islamic Azad University, Esfahan, Iran) are being investigated with Dr Peep Männik (Tallinn Technical ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The conodont fauna from nine sections across a platform-to-basin transect in northeastern British Columbia includes species of Early ...

Charles T. Helfrich, A Conodont Fauna from the Keyser Limestone of Virginia and West Virginia, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 52, No. 5 (Sep., 1978), pp. 1133-1142 ...