Behavioral and anatomical unity of the earliest burrowing animals and the cause of the "Cambrian explosion"

Paleobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 503-521

  Dzik, Jerzy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BURROWING ORGANISM; CAMBRIAN; METAZOAN;

EASTERN EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SIBERIA; UKRAINE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA; PRIAPULIDA;

EID: 24344443588     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2005)031[0503:BAAUOT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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