Evolution of morphogenesis in 360-million-year-old conodont chordates calibrated in days

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 769-777

  Dzik, Jerzy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONODONT; DEVONIAN; JUVENILE; MORPHOGENESIS; ONTOGENY; OTOLITH; PALEONTOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETON; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TYPE SPECIMEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MORPHOGENESIS; VERTEBRATES;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; SWIETOKRZYSKIE; SWIETOKRZYSKIE MOUNTAINS;

CHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 55049109018     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00291.x     Document Type: Article

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