A soft-bodied lophophorate from the Silurian of England

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 146-149

  Sutton, M D ^a   Briggs, D E G ^b   Siveter, David J ^c   Siveter, Derek J ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brachiopoda; Exceptional preservation; Serial repetition

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BRYOZOAN; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRESERVATION; RARE SPECIES; SILURIAN; TAXONOMY;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

BRACHIOPODA; LOPHOPHORA;

EID: 79551487852     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0540     Document Type: Article

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