Tracing the trilobite tree from the root to the tips: A model marriage of fossils and phylogeny

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 39, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 111-123

  Lieberman, Bruce S ^a,b   Karim, Talia S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Dept of Ecol Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

ARTHROPODA; TRILOBITA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 77950596213     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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