Osteolepiforms and the ancestry of tetrapods

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6704, 1998, Pages 792-794

  Ahlberg, Per E ^a   Johanson, Zerina ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL; VERTEBRATE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

ACANTHOSTEGA; ELPISTOSTEGALIA; ICHTHYOSTEGA; OSTEOLEPIFORMES; RHIZODONTIDA; TETRAPODA; TETRAPODOMORPHA;

EID: 0032558836     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/27421     Document Type: Article

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