The late Precambrian fossil Kimberella is a mollusc-like bilaterian organism

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6645, 1997, Pages 868-871

  Fedonkin, Mikhail A ^a   Waggoner, Benjamin M ^b  

^a PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KIMBERELLA QUADRATA; METAZOAN; MOLLUSC-LIKE ORGANISM; PROTEROZOIC;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BENTHOS; FOSSIL; JELLYFISH; METAZOON; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; CUBOZOA; METAZOA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0030930169     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42242     Document Type: Article

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