A Silurian armoured aplacophoran and implications for molluscan phylogeny

Nature

Volumn 490, Issue 7418, 2012, Pages 94-97

  Sutton, Mark D ^a   Briggs, Derek E G ^b   Siveter, David J ^c   Siveter, Derek J ^d   Sigwart, Julia D ^e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MOLLUSC; PHYLOGENY; SILURIAN; SPECIMEN BANK;

APLACOPHORA; ARTICLE; CEPHALOPOD; CHITON; CLADISTICS; FOSSIL; MOLLUSC; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PARAPHYLY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILURIAN; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; ENGLAND; FOSSILS; MOLLUSCA; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLACOPHORA;

APLACOPHORA; CEPHALOPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; POLYPLACOPHORA;

EID: 84866972092     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11328     Document Type: Article

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