Morphology and affinities of Eridostracina: Palaeozoic ostracods with moult retention

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 688, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 139-165

  Olempska, Ewa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cell like structures; Eridostracina; Moult retention; Ostracoda; Palaeozoic; Vestigial structures

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; DEVONIAN; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MOLT; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE; OSTRACOD; PALEOZOIC; RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTHROPODA; BRANCHIOPODA; CRUSTACEA; CRYPTOPHYLLUS; OSTRACODA;

EID: 84859846813     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0659-7     Document Type: Article

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