Feeding in extinct jawless heterostracan fishes and testing scenarios of early vertebrate evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1486, 2002, Pages 83-88

  Purnell, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agnathan; Filter feeding; Predation; Pteraspid; Trophic ecology

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FEEDING MECHANISM; FISH;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TOOTH; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; EATING; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; FOSSILS; JAW; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOUTH; NOSE; TOOTH;

AGNATHA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 53149147085     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1826     Document Type: Article

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