Rhyniella is a genus of fossil springtails (Collembola) from the Rhynie chert, which formed during the Pragian stage of the Early Devonian. One species...

Scourfield. Hirst and Maulik published a report in 1926; in it they described Rhyniella praecursor, which is now known to be a springtail. Several other pieces...

hexapod. The unequivocal oldest known hexapod and insect is the springtail Rhyniella, from about 410 million years ago in the Devonian period, and the palaeodictyopteran...

crustacean Lepidocaris, the euthycarcinoid Heterocrania, the springtail Rhyniella, the possible insect Leverhulmia, the harvestman Eophalangium sheari,...

attested to since the Early Devonian. The fossil from 400 million years ago, Rhyniella praecursor, is the oldest terrestrial arthropod, and was found in the...

that were already known (including fossils of Kidstoniella fritschii and Rhyniella vermiformis) as fossil material of a single species Langiella scourfieldii...