The Ontogeny of the Ordovician trilobite Ovalocephalus and its bearing on the affinity and evolution of the genus

Special Papers in Palaeontology

Volumn 70, Issue , 2003, Pages 259-269

  Yuan, Wenwei ^a   Zhou, Zhiyi ^a   Siveter, Derek J ^b   Zhou, Zhiqiang ^c  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c XI AN INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Evolution; Hammatocnemidae; Ontogeny; Ordovician; Ovalocephalus; Pliomeridae; Trilobite

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646585593     PISSN: 00386804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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