Reassessment of the phylogenetic position of conulariids (?Ediacaran-Triassic) within the subphylum Medusozoa (Phylum Cnidaria)

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 109-118

  Van Iten, Heyo ^a   Leme, Juliana De Moraes ^b   Simões, Marcello Guimarães ^c   Marques, Antonio Carlos ^b   Collins, Allen G ^d  

^a HANOVER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affinities; Cladistics; Cnidaria; Conulariids; Medusozoa; Morphology; Phanerozoic; Phylogeny; Systematics

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; INVERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYP; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; CONULARIIDA; CORONATAE; RHIZOSTOMEAE; SCYPHOZOA; SEMAEOSTOMEAE; STAUROMEDUSAE;

EID: 33750209149     PISSN: 14772019     EISSN: 14780941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1477201905001793     Document Type: Review

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