Fossil Sister Group of Craniates: Predicted and Found

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-31

  Mallatt, Jon ^a   Chen, Jun Yuan ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Cladistics; Evolution; Haikouella; Vertebrate origins; Vertebrate paleontology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; LAMPREY; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATE;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; LAMPREYS; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; HAGFISH; HEMICHORDATA; MYXINIDAE; PETROMYZONTIDAE; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038593428     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10081     Document Type: Article

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