A new 'great-appendage' arthropod from the Lower Cambrian of China and homology of chelicerate chelicerae and raptorial antero-ventral appendages

Lethaia

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-20

  Chen, Junyuan ^a   Waloszek, Dieter ^b   Maas, Andreas ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

'Great appendages'; Arthropod phylogeny; Arthropoda; Chelicera; Chelicerata; Life habits

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CAMBRIAN; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ARTHROPODA; CHELA; CHELICERATA; CRUSTACEA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES);

EID: 2542489305     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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