A new stalked Filter-Feeder from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  O'Brien, Lorna J ^a,b   Caron, Jean Bernard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; COLOMBIA; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SIPHUSAUCTUM GREGARIUM; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAPHONOMY; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CLASSIFICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; TULIPA;

ANIMALS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84855968749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029233     Document Type: Article

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