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Article: Evidence for a dioecious mating system in Early Jurassic Hardapestheria maxwelli gen. et sp. nov. (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Spinicaudata) from the Kalkrand Formation of Namibia

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 57
Part: 1
Publication Date: January 2014
Page(s): 127 – 140
Author(s): Alycia L. Stigall, Daniel I. Hembree, Elizabeth H. Gierlowski-Kordesch and Heather C. Weismiller
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STIGALL, A. L., HEMBREE, D. I., GIERLOWSKI-KORDESCH, E. H., WEISMILLER, H. C. 2014. Evidence for a dioecious mating system in Early Jurassic Hardapestheria maxwelli gen. et sp. nov. (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Spinicaudata) from the Kalkrand Formation of Namibia. Palaeontology, 57, 1, 127–140, doi: 10.1111/pala.12055

Author Information

  • Alycia L. Stigall - Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA (email: stigall@ohio.edu)
  • Alycia L. Stigall - Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
  • Daniel I. Hembree - Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA (emails: stigall@ohio.edu; hembree@ohio.edu)
  • Elizabeth H. Gierlowski-Kordesch - Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA (email: gierlows@ohio.edu)
  • Heather C. Weismiller - Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA (email: hw195210@ohio.edu)

Publication History

  • Issue published online: 6 JAN 2014
  • Article first published online: 2 OCT 2013
  • Manuscript Accepted: 13 MAY 2013
  • Manuscript Received: 27 NOV 2012

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Ohio University Department of Geological Sciences
National Geographic Society
American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund

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