'Cambrian' demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: Insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges

Geobios

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 737-748

  Botting, Joseph P ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Burgess shale faunas; Hexactinellids; Non lithistid demosponges; Palaeoecology

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; EVOLUTION; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SPONGE;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

HEXACTINELLIDA; LITHISTIDA;

EID: 37049000425     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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