A carboniferous non-onychophoran lobopodian reveals long-term survival of a cambrian morphotype

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 1673-1675

  Haug, Joachim T ^a   Mayer, Georg ^b   Haug, Carolin ^a   Briggs, Derek E G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOPODIUM; TARDIGRADA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOPODIA; TARDIGRADA;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ONYCHOPHORA; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 84866728906     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.066     Document Type: Article

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