Soft-part anatomy of the early Cambrian bivalved arthropods Kunyangella and Kunmingella: Significance for the phylogenetic relationships of Bradoriida

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1689, 2010, Pages 1835-1841

  Hou, Xianguang ^a   Williams, Mark ^b   Siveter, David J ^b   Siveter, Derek J ^c   Aldridge, Richard J ^b   Sansom, Robert S ^b  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arthropoda; Bradoriida; Cambrian; Chengjiang lagerst tte; China; Exceptional preservation

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIVALVE; CAMBRIAN; CLADISTICS; HOMOGENEITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PRESERVATION;

CHENGJIANG; CHINA; YUNNAN;

ARTHROPODA; BRADORIIDA; CRUSTACEA; KUNMINGELLA;

EID: 77954345965     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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