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Arthropitys is an extinct genus of calamitacean equisetale. The petrified fossils of Arthropitys bistriata, the type species, can be found in the Leukersdorf Formation, Chemnitz petrified forest, Chemnitz, Germany. The genus existed from the Carboniferous (Bashkirian) until the Early Triassic (Olenekian).
Specimens have also been discovered in Belgium, Brazil, China, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the UK and the US (Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio).
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