Join us as we attempt to assemble this fragmented monster of an episode! So many legs. So many pop culture references. So many research papers to sift through! We try our best to separate fact from video game, and find ourselves caught in the crossfire between science and media. Our reputation may be at stake, but in the end…our mutual fascination with poop may unite us all!
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SOURCES:
ARK: Survival Evolved Wiki: Arthropleura
The Fossil Forum: Lycopods on the Menu? A herbivore coprolite mystery...
Largest Land-Dwelling “Bug” of All Time
National Geographic: Carboniferous Period
Why Giant Bugs Once Roamed the Earth
Arthropleura, the Giant Prehistoric Millipede
Czech Paleontological Society - Images of Arthropleura armata fossils
Whyte, Martin. (2018). Mating trackways of a fossil giant millipede. Scottish Journal of Geology. 54. sjg2017-013. 10.1144/sjg2017-013.
BRIGGS, D. E. G., PLINT, A., PICKERILL, R. K. 1984. Arthropleura trails from the Westphalian of eastern Canada. Palaeontology, 27, 4, 843–855.
Rolfe, W. D. Ian and J. Ingham. “Limb structure, affinity and diet of the Carboniferous ‘centipede’ Arthropleura.” Scottish Journal of Geology 3 (1967): 118 - 124.
Pearson, P. (1992). Walking traces of the giant myriapod Arthropleura from the Strathclyde Group (Lower Carboniferous) of Fife. Scottish Journal of Geology, 28, 127 - 133.
Proctor, C.. “Arthropleurids from the Westphalian D of Writhlington Geological Nature Reserve, Somerset.” (1998).
McGhee, G. (2018). Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World. New York; Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press. doi:10.7312/mcgh18096
