Ventastega curonica and the origin of tetrapod morphology

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7199, 2008, Pages 1199-1204

  Ahlberg, Per E ^a   Clack, Jennifer A ^b   Lukševičs, Ervins ^c   Blom, Henning ^a   Zupiņš, Ivars ^d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^d Natural History Museum of Latvia   (Latvia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SKELETON; SKULL; TAXONOMY; TETRAPOD;

ACANTHOSTEGA; ARTICLE; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ICHTHYOSTEGA; LATVIA; NONHUMAN; PANDERICHTHYS; PELVIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER GIRDLE; SKELETON; SKULL; TIKTAALIK; UPPER DEVONIAN; VENTASTEGA; VENTASTEGA CURONICA;

BALTIC STATES; EURASIA; EUROPE; LATVIA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

ACANTHOSTEGA; ICHTHYOSTEGA; TETRAPODA; VENTASTEGA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 46249109477     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06991     Document Type: Article

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