Fossilized soft tissues in a Silurian platyceratid gastropod

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1590, 2006, Pages 1039-1044

  Sutton, M D ^a   Briggs, D E G ^b   Siveter, David J ^c   Siveter, Derek J ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exceptional preservation; Herefordshire Lagerst tte; Palaeoecology; Phylogeny; Platyceratidae; Wenlock series

Indexed keywords

COMMENSAL; COPROPHAGY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FOSSIL; GASTROPOD; LAGERSTATTE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; SHELL; SILURIAN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ECHINODERM; FOSSIL; GASTROPOD; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILURIAN; TISSUE PRESERVATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COPROPHAGY; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; HEREFORDSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

DOCOGLOSSA; ECHINODERMATA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; PLATYCERATIDAE;

ANIMALS; COPROPHAGIA; ENGLAND; FOSSILS; GASTROPODA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 33746733136     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3403     Document Type: Article

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