Appendages of the arthropod Kunmingella from the early Cambrian of China : Its bearing on the systematic position of the Bradoriida and the fossil record of the Ostracoda

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 351, Issue 1344, 1996, Pages 1131-1145

  Xianguang, Hou ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KUNMINGELLA; BRADORIIDA; OSTRACODA; PHOSPHATOCOPIDA;

CAMBRIAN; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL;

CHINA;

EID: 0030435308     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1996.0098     Document Type: Article

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