Cenomanocarcinidae n. fam., a new Cretaceous podotreme family (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Raninoidia), with comments on related families

Geodiversitas

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 681-719

  Guinot, Daniele ^a   Vega, Francisco J ^b   Van Bakel, Barry W M ^c  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c Oertijdmuseum de Groene Poort   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brachyura; Cenomanocarcinidae n. Fam; Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni; Cretaceous; Crustacea; Decapoda; Necrocarcinidae; New family; Orithopsidae; Palaeocorystidae; Raninoidea; Raninoidia

Indexed keywords

BRACHYURA; CONIACIAN; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DROMIACEA; RANINOIDEA;

EID: 59449083292     PISSN: 12809659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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