Synchrotron-aided reconstruction of the conodont feeding apparatus and implications for the mouth of the first vertebrates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 8720-8724

  Goudemand, Nicolas ^a   Orchard, Michael J ^b   Urdy, Séverine ^a   Bucher, Hugo ^a   Tafforeau, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

Apical cartilage; Conodont oral skeleton; Early vertebrates; Homology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONODONT; CYCLOSTOME; FEEDING APPARATUS; INVERTEBRATE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCHROTRON;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARTILAGE; FOSSILS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JAW; MOUTH; SYNCHROTRONS; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79957753503     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1101754108     Document Type: Article

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