''Eopauropus balticus'' is a prehistoric

pauropod Pauropods are small, pale, millipede-like arthropods. Around 830 species in twelve families are found worldwide, living in soil and leaf mold. They look rather like centipedes, or millipedes, and may be a sister group of the latter. However, this ...

known from mid-Eocene

Baltic amber The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, called Baltic amber or succinite. It was produced sometime during the Eocene epoch, but exactly when is controversial. It has been estimated that these forests created more than 1 ...

. 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 that has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects."Amber" (2004). In Ma ...

(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 {{paleo-myriapod-stub