Separate evolutionary origins of teeth from evidence in fossil jawed vertebrates

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5610, 2003, Pages 1235-1236

  Meredith Smith, Moya ^a   Johanson, Zerina ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOOTH ENAMEL;

JAWED VERTEBRATES;

GEOLOGY;

EVOLUTION; FISH; PHYLOGENETICS; TOOTH; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENTIN; DENTITION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; JAW; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; VERTEBRATE; VETERINARY ANATOMY;

ANIMALS; DENTITION; EVOLUTION; FISHES; FOSSILS; PALEODONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TOOTH; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; PISCES; PLACODERMI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037458982     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1079623     Document Type: Article

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18. We thank J. Long (Western Australian Museum, Perth) for unlimited access to the Gogo placoderms collection supported by the National Geographic Society; D. Goujet for access to new material; and D. Goujet, J. Long, P. Ahlberg P. Janvier, H. Lelièvre, and K. Trinajstic for valuable discussions. We are especially grateful to T. Wighton (Natural History Museum, London) for thin sections. Supported by an Australian Research Council Senior Fellowship (Z.J.) and by the Royal Society London (M.M.S.).