Chelicerate Web Links and Literature

General Information

• Brusca, R. C. and Brusca, G. J. 1990. Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts.
• Clarkson, E. N. K. 1998. Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution (4th Edition). Blackwell Science, Oxford.

References

• Beall, B. S. 1991. The Writhlington phalangiotarbids: their palaeobiological significance. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 102, 161-168.
• Berland, L. 1932. Les Arachnides (Scorpions, Araignees, etc.). Paul Lechevalier & Fils, Paris.
• Braddy, S. J., Aldridge, R. J. and Theron, J. N. 1995. A new eurypterid from the Late Ordovician Table Mountain Group, South Africa. Palaeontology. 38, 563-581.
• Braddy, S. J., Selden, P. A. and Doan Nhat, T. 2002. A new carcinosomatid eurypterid from the Upper Silurian of Northern Vietnam. Palaeontology. 45, 897-915.
• Dunlop, J. A. 2002. Phylogeny of Chelicerata. pp.117-141. In (Bousquets, J. L. and Morrone, J. J., eds.) Biodiversidad, Taxonomia y Biogeografia de Arthropodos de Mexico: Hacia una sintesis de su conocimiento - Volume III. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
• Dunlop, J. A. 1996. A trigonotarbid arachnid from the Upper Silurian of Shropshire. Palaeontology. 39, 605-614.
• Dunlop, J. A., Anderson, L. I. and Braddy, S. J. 1999. A new chasmataspid (Chelicerata: Chasmataspida) from the Lower Devonian of the Midland Valley of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Science. 89, 161-165.
• Dunlop, J. A. and Selden, P. A. 1997. The early history and phylogeny of the chelicerates. pp. 237-245. In (Fortey, R. A. and Thomas, R. H., eds.) Arthropod Relationships, Systematics Association Special Volume Series 55. Chapman and Hall, London.

Web Links

American Museum of Natural History - Donor of some of the photographs on this site

Jason Dunlop's Home Page - More information on chelicerate and arachnid relationships

The Rhynie Chert - University of Aberdeen site about this famous early terrestrial environment

Palaeos.com - Many fossil pictures

Copyright information

Photographs marked AMNH are used with permission from the American Museum of Natural History, and cannot be reproduced without further permission.

Images from publications in Palaeontology can be used according to the journal's guidelines.

Return to: Chelicerates Home Page