The origin of pterygotid eurypterids (Chelicerata: Eurypterida)

Palaeontology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1141-1148

  Tetlie, O Erik ^a,b   Briggs, Derek E G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sandmoen Østre ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

Chelicerae; Indiana; Kokomo; Pterygotidae; Silurian

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; DEVONIAN; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; SILURIAN; TAXONOMY;

INDIANA; KOKOMO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; EURYPTERIDA; PTERYGOTIDAE; PTERYGOTUS;

EID: 70350031268     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00907.x     Document Type: Article

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