A new family, genus, and species of crab (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of Manitoba, Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1741-1752

  Feldmann, Rodney M ^a   Li, Rong Yu ^b   Schweitzer, Carrie E ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRANDON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EARTH SCIENCES; ECOSYSTEMS; MORPHOLOGY;

CARAPACE MORPHOLOGY; TAXA DOCUMENTS;

BIODIVERSITY;

CAMPANIAN; CRAB; CRETACEOUS; EXTINCTION; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

CANADA; MANITOBA; NORTH AMERICA;

BRACHYURA; BRACHYURAN; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); RANINOIDEA;

EID: 38849150765     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E07-046     Document Type: Article

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