''Eopauropus balticus'' is a prehistoric

pauropod Pauropoda is a class of small, pale, millipede-like arthropods in the subphylum Myriapoda. More than 900 species in twelve families are found worldwide, living in soil and leaf mold. Pauropods look like centipedes or millipedes and may be a sist ...

known from mid-Eocene

Baltic amber Baltic amber or succinite is amber from the Baltic region, home of its largest known deposits. It was produced sometime during the Eocene epoch, but exactly when is controversial. It has been estimated that this forested region provided the re ...

. It is the only known pauropod in the fossil record. As pauropods are normally soil-dwelling, their presence in

amber Amber is fossilized tree resin. Examples of it have been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since the Neolithic times, and worked as a gemstone since antiquity."Amber" (2004). In Maxine N. Lurie and Marc Mappen (eds.) ''Encyclopedia ...

(fossilized tree sap) is unusual, and they are the rarest known animals in Baltic amber.

References

Prehistoric myriapods Baltic amber Fossil taxa described in 2001 Pauropoda Animals described in 2001 {{paleo-myriapod-stub