What makes an ophiuroid? A morphological study of the problematic Ordovician stelleroid Stenaster and the palaeobiology of the earliest asteroids and ophiuroids

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 225-250

  Dean, Juliette ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asteroidea ; Ophiuroidea ; Palaeontology Morphology Phylogeny; Somasteroidea

Indexed keywords

ASTERIAS; ASTEROIDEA; ASTEROZOA; ECHINODERMATA; OPHIUROIDEA; SOMASTEROIDEA;

EID: 0033247005     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1999.tb00154.x     Document Type: Article

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