A primitive fossil fish sheds light on the origin of bony fishes

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6720, 1999, Pages 607-610

  Zhu, Min ^a   Yu, Xiaobo ^b   Janvier, Philippe ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FISH;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FISH; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON;

ACIPENSERIDAE; AMIIDAE; CHIMAERIFORMES; CHONDRICHTHYES; COELACANTHIDAE; DIPNOI; LEPISOSTEIDAE; OSTEICHTHYES; PISCES; POLYPTERIDAE; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033580264     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/17594     Document Type: Article

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