A Nektaspid arthropod from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna, with a description of retrodeformation based on functional morphology

Palaeontology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-122

  Budd, Graham E ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; NEKTASPIDA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 0033082956     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00064     Document Type: Article

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