Harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from the middle jurassic of China

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 955-962

  Huang, Diying ^a   Selden, Paul A ^b,c   Dunlop, Jason A ^d  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Daohugou; Fossil; Inner Mongolia; Sclerosomatidae

Indexed keywords

ARACHNID; CENOZOIC; FOSSIL; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PALEOZOIC;

ARACHNID; ARTICLE; CHINA; DAOHUGOPILIO SHEARI; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HARVESTMEN; JURASSIC; LEG LENGTH; MESOBUNUS MARTENSI; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; ARACHNIDA; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; MAMMALS; PALEONTOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; OPILIONES; SCLEROSOMATIDAE;

EID: 68349117279     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-009-0556-3     Document Type: Article

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