New Early Cambrian bilaterian embryos and larvae from China

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 833-836

  Steiner, Michael ^a   Zhu, MaoYan ^b   Li, GuoXiang ^b   Qian, Yi ^b   Erdtmann, Bernd D ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Embryos; Larvae; Ontogeny; Yangtze platform

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOS; FOSSILS; METAZOA;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

GEOLOGY;

CAMBRIAN; EMBRYO; FOSSIL; LAGERSTATTE; LARVA; METAZOAN; ONTOGENY;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 7444251538     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20567.1     Document Type: Article

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