A carboniferous synziphosurine (xiphosura) from the Bear Gulch Limestone, Montana, USA

Palaeontology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1013-1019

  Moore, Rachel A ^a   McKenzie, Scott C ^b   Lieberman, Bruce S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Geology Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropoda; Chelicerata; Horseshoe crab; Marine; Mississippian; Serpukhovian

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CARBONIFEROUS; FOSSIL RECORD; LIMESTONE; MARINE SEDIMENT; NEW SPECIES; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SILURIAN;

BEAR GULCH; MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; LIMULUS; MEROSTOMATA; XIPHOSURA;

EID: 34547439860     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00685.x     Document Type: Article

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