Rooting phylogenies of problematic fossil taxa; a case study using cinctans (stem-group echinoderms)

Palaeontology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 803-821

  Smith, Andrew B ^a   Zamora, Samuel ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Cladistics; Echinoderms; New taxa; Phylogenetic analysis; Rooting; Stem group

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; CLADISTICS; ECHINODERM; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; ROOTING; TAXONOMY;

ECHINODERMATA;

EID: 67749129371     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00880.x     Document Type: Article

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