An antiarch placoderm shows that pelvic girdles arose at the root of jawed vertebrates

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 453-456

  Zhu, Min ^a   Yu, Xiaobo ^a,b   Choo, Brian ^a   Wang, Junqing ^a   Jia, Liantao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiarchs; Devonian; Jawed vertebrates; Pelvic girdles; Placoderms

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; MORPHOLOGY; PRESERVATION; VERTEBRATE;

GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859241852     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1033     Document Type: Article

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