Cindarella and the Arachnate clade Xandarellida (Arthropoda, Early Cambrian) from China

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-38

  Ramsköld, Lars ^a   Junyuan, Chen ^b   Edgecombe, Gregory D ^c   Guiqing, Zhou ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arachnata; Chengjiang fauna; Early Cambrian; Xandarellida

Indexed keywords

ARACHNATA; ARTHROPOD; CAMBRIAN; CINDARELLA; XANDARELLIDA;

CHINA;

EID: 0030778728     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300002297     Document Type: Article

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