New data on the enigmatic Ocruranus-Eohalobia group of early cambrian small skeletal fossils

Palaeontology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1373-1396

  Vendrasco, Michael J ^a   Li, Guoxiang ^b   Porter, Susannah M ^a   Fernandez, Christine Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Chiton; Eohalobia; Meishucun; Mollusc; Ocruranus; Polyplacophora

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; BRACHIOPOD; CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; SKELETAL REMAINS; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; MOLLUSCA; POLYPLACOPHORA;

EID: 71149106863     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00913.x     Document Type: Article

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