A 'Collins' monster'-type lobopodian from the Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte (Cambrian), South Australia

Alcheringa

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 474-478

  García Bellido, Diego C ^a,b   Edgecombe, Gregory D ^c   Paterson, John R ^c   Ma, Xiaoya ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acinocricus; Gondwana; Lobopodia; Luolishania; Xenusia

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; LAURENTIA; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SHALE;

AUSTRALIA; KANGAROO ISLAND; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

LUOLISHANIA;

EID: 84889587342     PISSN: 03115518     EISSN: 17520754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2013.792456     Document Type: Article

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