A starfish with three-dimensionally preserved soft parts from the Silurian of England

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1567, 2005, Pages 1001-1006

  Sutton, M D ^a   Briggs, D E G ^b   Siveter, David J ^c   Siveter, Derek J ^d   Gladwell, D J ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asteroidea; Bdellacoma; Bursulella; Herefordshire Lagerst tte; Wenlock Series

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ECHINODERM; FOSSIL RECORD; SILURIAN;

ARTICLE; ASTERIAS; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FOSSIL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEOZOIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UNITED KINGDOM;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ASTEROIDEA; BDELLACOMA; BURSULELLA; PAXILLOSIDA;

EID: 21744446547     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2951     Document Type: Article

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