An outline morphometric approach to identifying fossil spiders: A preliminary examination from the Florissant Formation

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 435, Issue , 2008, Pages 105-116

  Roberts, April Kinchloe ^a   Smith, Dena M ^b   Guralnick, Robert P ^b   Cushing, Paula E ^c   Krieger, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Araneae; Florissant; Morphometries; Spiders

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

ARANEAE; DATA SET; FLORISSANT; MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRIES; MULTIPLE DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SPIDERS; TAXONOMIC CHARACTERS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FOSSIL; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOMETRY; SPIDER; TAXONOMY;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

AGELENIDAE; ARANEAE; ARANEIDAE; CLUBIONIDAE; LINYPHIIDAE; LYCOSIDAE; SALTICIDAE; TETRAGNATHIDAE;

EID: 75249096217     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2435(07)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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