Revised systematics of Palaeozoic ‘ horseshoe crabs’ and the myth of monophyletic Xiphosura
Author
Lamsdell, James C.
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2013
2012-12-18
167
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00874.x
journal article
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00874.x
0024-4082
5292231
CHASMATASPIDIDA
CASTER & BROOKS, 1956
[= DIPLOASPIDA
SIMONETTA & DELLE CAVE, 1978
]
Diagnosis:
Dekatriata with the tergite of somite VII retained as a dorsally visible microtergite; tergites of somites VII–X dorsally fused into a buckler; buckler underlain by ventral plate.