Fossil onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n.g., n.sp. (Tertiapatidae n.fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n.g., n.sp. (Succinipatopsidae n.fam.) with a proposed classification of the subphylum Onychophora

Invertebrate Biology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 104-109

  Poinar Jr , George ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Euonychophora; Fossil velvet worms

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; ONYCHOPHORA;

EID: 0034387485     PISSN: 10778306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00178.x     Document Type: Article

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