Fossil Focus: Coal swamps PALAEONTOLOGY[online]
Figure 6 a, Trigonotarbid arthropod from a Carboniferous coal ball. b, Millipede from a Carboniferous coal ball. Other giants of the Palaeozoic coal swamps included the relatives of modern dragonflies, from the genus Meganeura (Fig. 7) in the Carboniferous and Meganeuropsis in the Permian, which attained wingspans of up to 75 cm. These would ...