Small Bilaterian fossils from 40 to 55 million years before the Cambrian

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5681, 2004, Pages 218-222

  Chen, Jun Yuan ^a,b   Bottjer, David J ^c   Oliveri, Paola ^d   Dornbos, Stephen Q ^c   Gao, Feng ^d   Ruffins, Seth ^d   Chi, Huimei ^e   Li, Chia Wei ^f   Davidson, Eric H ^d  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

FOSSILS; SPECIMENS;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PRECAMBRIAN;

ARTICLE; CAMBRIAN; CHINA; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; PHARYNX; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSE ORGAN;

NASA DISCIPLINE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; CHINA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDODERM; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; INVERTEBRATES; MESODERM; PHYLOGENY; TIME;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA;

EID: 3042723805     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1099213     Document Type: Article

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