A redescription of the Carboniferous arachnid Plesiosiro madeleyi Pocock, 1911 (Arachnida: Haptopoda)

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-47

  Dunlop, Jason A ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amblypygi; Arthropod; Coal Measures; Coseley; Fossil; Opiliones; Phylogeny; Systematics; Thelyphonida

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; COAL MEASURES;

COSELEY; ENGLAND(STAFFORDSHIRE); UNITED KINGDOM;

AMBLYPYGI; ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; CARBONIFEROUS; OPILIONES; PLESIOSIRO; PLESIOSIRO MADELEYI; SCHIZOMIDA; THELYPHONIDA; TROGULIDAE;

EID: 0033370683     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300002492     Document Type: Article

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