Basal tissue structure in the earliest euconodonts: Testing hypotheses of developmental plasticity in euconodont phylogeny

Palaeontology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 411-421

  Dong, Xi Ping ^a   Donoghue, Philip C J ^b   Repetski, John E ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conodonta; Dentine; Developmental evolution; Histology; Skeleton; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

CONODONT; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

CONODONTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 16344393760     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00452.x     Document Type: Article

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