Ancestral echinoderms from the Chengjiang deposits of China

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 6998, 2004, Pages 422-428

  Shu, D G ^a,b   Morris, S Conway ^c   Han, J ^b   Zhang, Z F ^b   Liu, J N ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCAVATION; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING;

DEUTEROSTOMES; MOLECULAR DATAS;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

ECHINODERM; FOSSIL; PHYLOGENY;

ARTICLE; CHINA; ECHINODERM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHINA; ECHINODERMATA; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY;

ASIA; CHENGJIANG; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YUNNAN;

CHORDATA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINODERMATA; HEMICHORDATA; HOMALOZOA; INVERTEBRATA; VETULICOLIA;

EID: 3342935040     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02648     Document Type: Article

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