Experimental taphonomy shows the feasibility of fossil embryos

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 5846-5851

  Raff, Elizabeth C ^a   Villinski, Jeffrey T ^a   Turner, F Rudolf ^a   Donoghue, Philip C J ^b   Raff, Rudolf A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developmental evolution; Embryo taphonomy; Fossil record; Metazoan origins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; CELL STRUCTURE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EVOLUTION; FERTILIZATION; FOSSIL; LARVA; MINERALIZATION; ONTOGENY; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAPHONOMY;

ANIMALS; DEATH; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FERTILIZATION; FOSSILS; MODELS, ANIMAL; SEA URCHINS;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 33645800573     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0601536103     Document Type: Article

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