The first whipspider (Arachnida: Amblypygi) and three new whipscorpions (Arachnida: Thelyphonida) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 325-334

  Dunlop, Jason A ^a   Martill, David M ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aptian; Arthropoda; Cear State; Chelicerata

Indexed keywords

APTIAN; ARACHNID; ARTHROPOD; CRETACEOUS; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY;

BRAZIL;

AMBLYPYGI; ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; BRITOPYGUS WEYGOLDTI; CHELICERATA; MASTIGOPROCTUS; MESOPROCTUS ROWLANDI; UROPYGI;

EID: 0036291570     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: 14737116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300000262     Document Type: Article

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