Phosphatized Punctatus with mouthparts and its embryo fossils from the Lower Cambrian of Ningqiang, south Shaanxi, China

Frontiers of Earth Science in China

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-11

  Liu, Yunhuan ^a   Li, Yong ^a   Shao, Tiequan ^a   Zhu, Zhixin ^b   Yu, Bo ^a   Wang, Zhuo ^a   Zhang, Wanqian ^a   Li, Rongxi ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cnidaria; Embryo fossils; Kuanchuanpu Member of the Dengying Formation; Meishucun Stage; Mouthparts; Punctatus; South Shaanxi

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; EMBRYO; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; TAXONOMY;

CHINA; SHAANXI;

EID: 34250786280     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-007-0001-x     Document Type: Article

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