First land animal
- Who
- Pneumodesmus newmani
- Where
- Stonehaven,Aberdeenshire
- When
- 01 January 0001
The earliest known land animal is Pneumodesmus newmani, a species of millipede known from a single fossil specimen, which lived 428 million years ago during the late Silurian Period. It was discovered in 2004, in a layer of sandstone near Stonehaven, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.