Fossilized metazoan embryos from the earliest Cambrian

Science

Volumn 277, Issue 5332, 1997, Pages 1645-1648

  Bengtson, Stefan ^a   Zhao, Yue ^b  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CONULARIID; EMBRYO; MARKUELIA; OLIVOOIDES; SCYPHOZOAN;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOSSIL; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK;

EID: 0030815527     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5332.1645     Document Type: Article

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