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Arthropod larvae from the Upper Cambrian of Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Klaus J. Müller  and
Dieter Walossek
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.
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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.

Keywords

ChelicerataCrustaceaEuarthropodamode of lifemorphologyPantopoda.
Type
Research Article
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 77 , Issue 2 , 1986 , pp. 157 - 179
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1986

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