Resistance of spiders to cretaceous-tertiary extinction events

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2599-2607

  Penney, David ^a   Wheater, C Philip ^b   Selden, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Araneae; Cenomanian Turonian; Fossil; Mass extinctions; Mesozoic

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL; MASS EXTINCTION; SPIDER;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE;

EID: 0344232715     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb01502.x     Document Type: Article

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