Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian

Nature

Volumn 465, Issue 7297, 2010, Pages 469-472

  Smith, Martin R ^a,b   Caron, Jean Bernard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; BUOYANCY; CAMBRIAN; CARNIVORE; CEPHALOPOD; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; ORDOVICIAN; PALEONTOLOGY; SHELL;

ARTICLE; CAMBRIAN; CARNIVORE; CEPHALOPOD; GILL; LOWER CAMBRIAN; MIDDLE CAMBRIAN; NECTOCARIS PTERYX; NONHUMAN; ORDOVICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CEPHALOPODA; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY;

CANADA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; NAUTILIDA;

EID: 77952993535     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09068     Document Type: Article

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