Walking and jumping with Palaeozoic apterygote insects

Palaeontology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 827-835

  Minter, Nicholas J ^a   Braddy, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeognatha; Locomotion; Monura; Petrobius; Robledo Mountains Formation; Tonganoxichnus

Indexed keywords

INSECT; PALEOZOIC; WALKING;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

APTERYGOTA; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MACHILIDAE; PETROBIUS; STIARIA;

EID: 33745845829     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00571.x     Document Type: Article

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