Evaluating paedomorphic heterochrony in trilobites: The case of the diminutive trilobite Flexicalymene retrorsa minuens from the Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati region

Evolution and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 483-498

  Hunda, Brenda R ^a   Hughes, Nigel C ^b  

^a Cincinnati Museum Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; HETEROCHRONY (ONTOGENY); ORDOVICIAN; PEDOMORPHOSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; SUBSPECIES; TRILOBITE;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; OHIO; PHYLOGENY;

NORTH AMERICA;

CINCINNATIA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 34548526494     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2007.00186.x     Document Type: Article

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