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Phalangiotarbid arachnids from the Coal Measures of Lancashire, UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 1997

JASON A. DUNLOP  and
CARL A. HORROCKS
JASON A. DUNLOP
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
CARL A. HORROCKS
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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Abstract

Four new specimens of phalangiotarbid (Arachnida: Phalangiotarbida) from the Upper Carboniferous (upper Westphalian A) of Westhoughton, Lancashire, UK, are referred to Mesotarbus peteri sp. nov. An additional Lancashire phalangiotarbid, Phalangiotarbus subovalis (Woodward, 1872), from the Upper Carboniferous (lower/middle Westphalian A) of Burnley, is redescribed and designated the neotype of this species. This material allows new interpretations of the opisthosomal segmentation and respiratory organs of phalangiotarbids, and a reconstruction of Mesotarbus peteri is presented.

Type
Research Article
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 134 , Issue 3 , May 1997 , pp. 369 - 381
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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