Reconsideration of the supposed naraoiid larva from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, South China

Palaeontology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 447-465

  Zhang, Xing Liang ^a   Han, Jian ^a   Zhang, Zhi Fei ^a   Liu, Hu Qin ^a   Shu, De Gan ^a  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arthropoda; Body plans; Cambrian; Chengjiang; Heterochrony

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CAMBRIAN; LAGERSTATTE; LARVA; LIMB; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

(SOUTH); CHINA;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PARVANCORINA; PRIMICARIS LARVAFORMIS;

EID: 0038347218     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00307     Document Type: Article

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