Rhyniella is a genus of fossil springtails (Collembola) from the Rhynie chert, which formed during the Pragian stage of the Early Devonian. One species has been described, Rhyniella praecursor. For some time it was believed to be the only hexapod from the Early Devonian (c. 410 million years ago)[1]
^R. J. Tillyard. 1928. Some remarks on the Devonian fossil insects from the Rhynie chert beds, Old Red Sandstone. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 76:65-71
Rhyniella is a genus of fossil springtails (Collembola) from the Rhynie chert, which formed during the Pragian stage of the Early Devonian. One species...
hexapod. The unequivocal oldest known hexapod and insect is the springtail Rhyniella, from about 410 million years ago in the Devonian period, and the palaeodictyopteran...
Scourfield. Hirst and Maulik published a report in 1926; in it they described Rhyniella praecursor, which is now known to be a springtail. Several other pieces...
crustacean Lepidocaris, the euthycarcinoid Heterocrania, the springtail Rhyniella, the possible insect Leverhulmia, the harvestman Eophalangium sheari,...
attested to since the Early Devonian. The fossil from 400 million years ago, Rhyniella praecursor, is the oldest terrestrial arthropod, and was found in the...
that were already known (including fossils of Kidstoniella fritschii and Rhyniella vermiformis) as fossil material of a single species Langiella scourfieldii...
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