Andrognathus is a genus of North American millipedes in the family Andrognathidae, containing three species: A. corticarius, A. grubbsi, and A. hoffmani.[1] The fossil species Andrognathus burmiticus is known from approximately 99 million year old Burmese amber from Myanmar, showing that the genus had a much wider distribution in the past.[2]

Andrognathus
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent
Andrognathus corticarius
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Platydesmida
Family: Andrognathidae
Genus: Andrognathus
Cope, 1869

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  1. ^ Shorter, Patricia L.; Hennen, Derek A.; Marek, Paul E. (2018). "Cryptic diversity in Andrognathus corticarius Cope, 1869 and description of a new Andrognathus species from New Mexico (Diplopoda, Platydesmida, Andrognathidae)". ZooKeys (786): 19–41. Bibcode:2018ZooK..786...19S. doi:10.3897/zookeys.786.27631. PMC 6168611. PMID 30283233.
  2. ^ Moritz, Leif; Wesener, Thomas (September 2019). "The first known fossils of the Platydesmida—an extant American genus in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Diplopoda: Platydesmida: Andrognathidae)". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 19 (3): 423–433. doi:10.1007/s13127-019-00408-0. ISSN 1439-6092. S2CID 195744191.
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