A new early Oligocene crab (Decapoda, Brachyura, Dromiacea) from northwest Belgium, with comments on its palaeobiology

Geologica Belgica

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 45-57

  Van Bakel, Barry W M ^a   Artal, Pedro ^b   Feaaije, René H B ^a   Jagt, John W M ^c  

^a Oertijdmuseum de Groene Poort   (Netherlands)

^b Curator Echinoidea of the Museo Geológico del Seminario de Barcelona   (Spain)

^c NATUURHISTORISCH MUSEUM MAASTRICHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Belgium; Crustacea; Decapoda; Dromioidea; Dynomenidae; New taxa; Oligocene; Palaeobiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 75249091660     PISSN: 13748505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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