A new calmanostracan crustacean species from the Cretaceous Yixian Formation and a simple approach for differentiating fossil tadpole shrimps and their relatives

A new calmanostracan crustacean species from the Cretaceous Yixian Formation and a simple approach for differentiating fossil tadpole shrimps and their relatives

Abstract Background Calmanostraca is a group of branchiopod eucrustaceans, with Triops cancriformis and Lepidurus apus as most prominent representatives. Both are regularly addressed with the inaccurate tag “living fossil”, suggesting that the morphology has remained stable for several millions of y...

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Main Authors: Philipp Wagner, Joachim T. Haug, Carolin Haug
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-06-01
Series:Zoological Letters
Subjects:
Eucrustacea
Calmanostraca
Notostraca
Kazacharthra
Phylogeny
Morphospace
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40851-019-0136-0

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