Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids

Nature

Volumn 451, Issue 7175, 2008, Pages 185-188

  Vinther, Jakob ^a   Van Roy, Peter ^b,c   Briggs, Derek E G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNELID; CALCITE; CONODONT; DENTITION; ECHINODERM; MOLLUSC; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; SKELETON; SOFT TISSUE PRESERVATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; FOSSIL; MACHAERIDIAN; MOROCCO; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; ECHINODERMATA; INVERTEBRATA; MACHAERIDIA; MOLLUSCA; THORACICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 38049145973     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06474     Document Type: Article

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