Pikaia gracilens Walcott, a stem-group chordate from the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia

Biological Reviews

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 480-512

  Morris, Simon Conway ^a   Caron, Jean Bernard ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Burgess Shale; Cambrian; Chordates; Evolution; Pikaia; Yunnanozoans

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; FOSSILS;

BRANCHIOSTOMA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CHORDATA; DEUTEROSTOMIA;

EID: 84859423672     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00220.x     Document Type: Article

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