An armoured Cambrian lobopodian from China with arthropod-like appendages

Nature

Volumn 470, Issue 7335, 2011, Pages 526-530

  Liu, Jianni ^a,b   Steiner, Michael ^b   Dunlop, Jason A ^c   Keupp, Helmut ^b   Shu, Degan ^a,d   Ou, Qiang ^d   Han, Jian ^a   Zhang, Zhifei ^a   Zhang, Xingliang ^a  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; METAZOAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CAMBRIAN; CHINA; DIANIA CACTIFORMIS; FOSSIL ANIMAL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CHINA; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; EXTREMITIES; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY;

CHINA;

ARTHROPODA; KERYGMACHELA; METAZOA; ONYCHOPHORA; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 79952137524     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09704     Document Type: Article

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