Two new silurian species of Eurypterus (chelicerata: eurypterida) from Norway and Canada and the phylogeny of the genus

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 397-412

  Tetlie, O Erik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltoeurypterus; Metastoma ontogeny; Ringerike; Somerset island

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SILURIAN;

CANADA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; NUNAVUT; PENTLAND HILLS; SCANDINAVIA; SCOTLAND; SOMERSET ISLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CHELICERATA; EURYPTERIDA; METASTOMA;

EID: 33750410790     PISSN: 14772019     EISSN: 14780941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1477201906001921     Document Type: Article

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