| Crussolum Temporal range:
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| Reconstruction of a generalised Crussolum leg | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Chilopoda |
| Order: | Scutigeromorpha |
| Genus: | †Crussolum Shear, Jeram & Selden, 1998 |
| Species: | †C. crusserratum
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| †Crussolum crusserratum Shear, Jeram & Selden, 1998
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Crussolum is a genus of Silurian and Devonian centipedes from the US and Britain. It is the oldest known centipede.[1]
- ^ Shear, William A.; Jeram, Andrew J.; Selden, Paul (1998). "Centiped legs (Arthropoda, Chilopoda, Scutigeromorpha) from the Silurian and Devonian of Britain and the Devonian of North America". American Museum Novitates (3231). hdl:2246/3370.