Fossil jawless fish from China foreshadows early jawed vertebrate anatomy

Nature

Volumn 476, Issue 7360, 2011, Pages 324-327

  Gai, Zhikun ^a,b   Donoghue, Philip C J ^a   Zhu, Min ^b   Janvier, Philippe ^c   Stampanoni, Marco ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANATOMY; FISH; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHINA; CYCLOSTOME; FISH; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GALEASPID; GNATHOSTOME; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS SAC; JAW; JAWED VERTEBRATE; JAWLESS FISH; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; NOSE; NOSE SAC; OSTEOSTRACAN; OSTRACODERM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION X RAY TOMOGRAPHY; TAXONOMIC RANK; VERTEBRATE; VIET NAM; X RAY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; FISHES; FOSSILS; HEAD; JAW; VIETNAM;

CHINA; VIET NAM;

AGNATHA; GALEASPIDIFORMES; GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); MYXINIDAE; PETROMYZONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80051939514     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10276     Document Type: Article

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