Disparity, decimation and the Cambrian "explosion": Comparison of early Cambrian and Present faunal communities with emphasis on velvet worms (Onychophora)

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 48, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 333-351

  Monge Nájera, Julián ^a   Hou, Xianguang ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

"Explosion"; Burgess Shale; Cambrian; Chengjiang; Community ecology; Costa Rica; Decimation; Disparity; Evolution; Feeding; Fossil; Habitat; Metazoa; Recent

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; COSTA RICA; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHINA; COSTA RICA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; INVERTEBRATES;

EID: 0034208737     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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