Fossil araneomorph spiders from the Triassic of South Africa and Virginia

Journal of Arachnology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 401-414

  Selden, Paul A ^a   Anderson, John M ^b   Anderson, Heidi M ^b   Fraser, Nicholas C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^c VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

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