Morphological criteria for recognising homology in isolated skeletal elements: Comparison of traditional and morphometric approaches in conodonts

Palaeontology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1243-1256

  Jones, David ^a,c   Purnell, Mark A ^a   Von Bitter, Peter H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conodont; Homology; Morphometrics; Skeleton; Wurmiella excavata

Indexed keywords

CONODONT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PALEOBIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETON; TAXONOMY;

EXCAVATA;

EID: 71049115578     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00915.x     Document Type: Article

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