A taxonomic revision of orthosternous scorpions from the english coal measures aided by x-ray micro-tomography (XMT)

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Legg, David A ^a   Garwood, Russell J ^b   Dunlop, Jason A ^c   Sutton, Mark D ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Computed tomography; Scorpiones; Siderite; Terrestrialisation; VAXML

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTHROPOD; COAL MEASURES; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; SIDERITE; TAXONOMY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOMOGRAPHY; WALKING; X-RAY;

SCORPIONES;

EID: 84866689988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26879/253     Document Type: Article

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