Raman spectra of a Lower Cambrian ctenophore embryo from southwestern Shaanxi, China

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

Volumn 104, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 6289-6292

  Chen, Jun Yuan ^a   Schopf, J William ^b,c   Bottjer, David J ^d   Zhang, Chen Yu ^a   Kudryavtsev, Anatoliy B ^b,c   Tripathi, Abhishek B ^b,c   Wang, Xiu Qiang ^a   Yang, Yong Hua ^a   Gao, Xiang ^a   Yang, Ying ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comb jelly; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Meishucun fossil assemblage; Ningqiang fossil fauna

Indexed keywords

APATITE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; COELENTERATE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EVOLUTION; FAUNA; FOSSIL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOWER CAMBRIAN; MAOTIANOASCUS OCTONARIUS; NONHUMAN; OIL SHALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SKELETON;

ANIMALS; CHINA; CTENOPHORA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FOSSILS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); METAZOA;

EID: 34547505657     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0701246104     Document Type: Article

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