Early tetrapod relationships revisited

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 251-345

  Ruta, Marcello ^a   Coates, Michael I ^a   Quicke, Donald L J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amniotes; Characters; Congruence; Lissamphibians; Parsimony ratchet; Taxon exemplar; Tetrapods; Total group

Indexed keywords

ACHERONTISCUS; AMPHIBIA; ANTHRACOSAURUS RUSSELLI; ARCHERIA CRASSIDISCA; BATRACHIDERPETON RETICULATUM; CAENORHACHIS; CARBONIFEROUS; CRASSIGYRINUS; DICERATOSAURUS BREVIROSTRIS; DIPLOCAULUS MAGNICORNIS; DIPLOCERAPIS BURKEI; EOCAECILIA MICROPODA; KARAURUS SHAROVI; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHOLIDERPETON ATTHEYI; PHOLIDERPETON SCUTIGERUM; REVIEW; SOLENODONSAURUS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TRIADOBATRACHUS MASSINOTI; VALDOTRITON GRACILIS; WESTLOTHIANA; WHATCHEERIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATES;

AISTOPODA; AMNIOTA; AMPHIBIA; ARCHERIA; DISSOROPHOIDEA; LEPOSPONDYLI; NECTRIDEA; SEYMOURIAMORPHA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 0038509160     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793102006103     Document Type: Review

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