The dawn of animal skeletogenesis: Ultrastructural analysis of the Ediacaran metazoan Corumbella werneri

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 691-694

  Warren, L V ^a   Pacheco, M L A F ^a   Fairchild, T R ^a   Simoes M G ^b   Riccomini, C ^a   Boggiani, P C ^a   Caceres A A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c Industria Nacional de Cemento   (Paraguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDIACARAN; PARAGUAY; POLYGONAL PLATE; PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES; SHELLY FOSSILS; SKELETAL TISSUES; SKELETOGENESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

TISSUE;

BIOMINERALIZATION;

BIOMINERALIZATION; EDIACARAN; FOSSIL RECORD; METAZOAN; MORPHOLOGY; PREDATOR; SESSILE SPECIES; SKELETON;

ANIMALIA; CLOUDINA; CONULARIIDA; CORUMBELLA; METAZOA;

EID: 84866182846     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33005.1     Document Type: Article

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