Angustidontus, a Late Devonian pelagic predatory crustacean

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-96

  Rolfe, W D Ian ^a   Dzik, Jerzy ^b,c  

^a Instytut Paleobiologii PAN ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Eumalacostraca; Evolution; Famennian; Hoplostraca; Morphology; Origin; Peracarida

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CRUSTACEAN; EVOLUTION; FAMENNIAN; MORPHOLOGY; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PREDATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; POLAND; UNITED STATES;

CRUSTACEA; EOCARIDA; EUMALACOSTRACA; HOPLOCARIDA; PERACARIDA;

EID: 33846263653     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593306000058     Document Type: Article

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