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Arthropod larvae from the Upper Cambrian of Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Klaus J. Müller
Affiliation:
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Institut für Paläontologie, Nuβallee 8, D-5300 Bonn 1, West Germany.
Dieter Walossek
Affiliation:
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Institut für Paläontologie, Nuβallee 8, D-5300 Bonn 1, West Germany.

Abstract

Four tiny obvious larvae unassignable to larger “Orsten” arthropods are described and reconstructed. Two of them have a naupliar appearance and may belong to crustaceans, whereas the other two represent as yet unknown types of euarthropodan larvae.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1986

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