Myriacantherpestes

Myriacantherpestes
Temporal range:
M. hystricosus fossil, National Museum of Natural History
Fossil of Myriacantherpestes clarkorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Euphoberiida
Family: Euphoberiidae
Genus: Myriacantherpestes
Burke, 1979
Type species
Eurypterus? (Arthropleura) ferox
Salter 1863
Species

M. bradebirksi Burke 1979
M. clarkorum (Burke 1973)
M. excrescens (Janssen 1940)
M. ferox (Salter 1863)
M. hystricosus (Scudder 1890)
M. inequalis (Scudder 1890)

Myriacantherpestes is an extinct genus of spiny millipedes from the Pennsylvanian subperiod of the Carboniferous period, known from fossils in Europe and North America.