First identifiable Mesozoic harvestman (Opiliones: Dyspnoi) from Cretaceous Burmese amber

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1567, 2005, Pages 1007-1013

  Giribet, Gonzalo ^a   Dunlop, Jason A ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Myanmar; Nemastomatidae; Ortholasmatinae; Systematics

Indexed keywords

AMBER;

AMBER; ARACHNID; CRETACEOUS; TAXONOMY;

CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL; FRANCE; GERMANY; LEBANON; MESOZOIC; MYANMAR; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

ARACHNIDA; HALITHERSES; HALITHERSES GRIMALDII; NEMASTOMATIDAE; OPILIONES;

EID: 21744434503     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3063     Document Type: Short Survey

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