A Silurian short-great-appendage arthropod

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1778, 2014, Pages

  Siveter, Derek J ^a   Briggs, Derek E G ^b   Siveter, David J ^c   Sutton, Mark D ^d   Legg, David ^a   Joomun, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arthropoda; Exceptional preservation; Herefordshire lagerst tte; Leanchoiliida; Megacheira; Silurian

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; PHYLOGENETICS; PRESERVATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EXCEPTIONAL PRESERVATION; FOSSIL; HEREFORDSHIRE LAGERSTÄTTE; HISTOLOGY; LEANCHOILIIDA; MEGACHEIRA; PHYLOGENY; SILURIAN;

ARTHROPODA; EXCEPTIONAL PRESERVATION; HEREFORDSHIRE LAGERSTÄTTE; LEANCHOILIIDA; MEGACHEIRA; SILURIAN;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY;

ENGLAND; GERMANY; HEREFORDSHIRE; HUNSRUCK; RHINELAND-PALATINATE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84899840544     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2986     Document Type: Article

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