Maotianshan-Shale nemathelminths - Morphology, biology, and the phylogeny of Nemathelminthes

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 288-306

  Maas, Andreas ^a   Huang, Diying ^b   Chen, Junyuan ^b   Waloszek, Dieter ^a   Braun, Andreas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cycloneuralia; Feeding; Introverta; Life habit; Locomotion; Scalids; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; INVERTEBRATE; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ASIA; CHENGJIANG; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YUNNAN;

ANIMALIA; KINORHYNCHA; LORICIFERA; NEMATODA; NEMATOIDA; NEMATOMORPHA; PRIAPULIDA; PRIAPULIDAE; SCALIDOPHORA; VITACEAE;

EID: 34548694759     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.019     Document Type: Article

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