Growth and patterning in the conodont skeleton

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1368, 1998, Pages 633-666

  Donoghue, Philip C J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agnathan; Conodont; Dentine; Enamel; Histology; Odontode

Indexed keywords

CONODONT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; PALAEOBIOLOGY;

EID: 0032577038     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0231     Document Type: Article

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