Exceptionally preserved jellyfishes from the Middle Cambria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Cartwright, Paulyn ^a   Halgedahl, Susan L ^b   Hendricks, Jonathan R ^a   Jarrard, Richard D ^b   Marques, Antonio C ^c   Collins, Allen G ^d   Lieberman, Bruce S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL ANIMAL; JELLYFISH; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANKTON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; METAZOA; SCYPHOZOA;

ANIMALS; CNIDARIA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; TIME FACTORS; UTAH;

EID: 42249107296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001121     Document Type: Article

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