Fossils, histology, and phylogeny: Why conodonts are not vertebrates

Episodes

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 234-241

  Blieck, Alain ^a   Turner, Susan ^b,c   Burrow, Carole J ^c   Schultze, Hans Peter ^d   Rexroad, Carl B ^e   Bultynck, Pierre ^f   Nowlan, Godfrey S ^g  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^g GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; CONODONT; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; HISTOLOGY; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY;

CHENGJIANG; CHINA; YUNNAN;

ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; CRANIATA (CHORDATA); GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); MYXINIDAE; MYXINIFORMES; PETROMYZONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80052667173     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2010/v33i4/002     Document Type: Review

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