page_title: Pneumodesmus
hierarchical_section_title: Pneumodesmus
caption_attribution_description: English: Photomicroscope image of the holotype of Pneumodesmus newmani from the Silurian of Cowie Harbour, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
context_page_description: Pneumodesmus newmani is a species of millipede that lived in the Paleozoic era. Its exact age is uncertain. 428 million years ago in the late Silurian was first suggested. A later study suggested the early Devonian.
  It is the first myriapod fossil, and the oldest known creature to have lived on land. The single specimen was discovered in 2004 near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire.
context_section_description: Pneumodesmus newmani is a species of millipede that lived in the Paleozoic era. Its exact age is uncertain. 428 million years ago in the late Silurian was first suggested. A later study suggested the early Devonian. 
  It is the first myriapod fossil, and the oldest known creature to have lived on land. The single specimen was discovered in 2004 near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire.
caption: Photomicrograph of the type specimen
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