Astrocratis acutispina, new genus and species, a new asteroid from the Late Cretaceous of Texas

Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1311-1320

  Blake, Daniel B ^a   Sprinkle, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid; Astrocratis acutispina n. sp; Campanian; Description; Morphology; Palaeoecology; Phylogeny; Taphonomy; Texas

Indexed keywords

ASTERIAS; ASTEROIDEA; ASTROPECTEN;

EID: 0006363222     PISSN: 00129402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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