Campanian terrestrial arthropods from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Difunta Group in northeastern Mexico

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 347-354

  Cifuentes Ruiz, Paulina ^a   Vršanský, Peter ^b,d   Vega, Francisco J ^a   Cevallos Ferriz, Sergio R S ^a   González Soriano, Enrique ^a   Delgado de Jesús, Carlos R ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c Museo del Desierto SEPC   (Mexico)

^d PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Aranea; Blattaria (=Blattodea); Campanian; Creataceous; Insecta; NE Mexico; New genus; New species; Odonata

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CAMPANIAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; NEW GENUS; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; BLATTARIA; CAVILABIATA; INSECTA; ODONATA;

EID: 33751363199     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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