Vertebral architecture in the earliest stem tetrapods

Nature

Volumn 494, Issue 7436, 2013, Pages 226-229

  Pierce, Stephanie E ^a,b   Ahlberg, Per E ^c   Hutchinson, John R ^b   Molnar, Julia L ^b   Sanchez, Sophie ^c,d   Tafforeau, Paul ^d   Clack, Jennifer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; TETRAPOD; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; TETRAPOD; VERTEBRA; X RAY SYNCHROTRON MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; SPINE; SYNCHROTRONS; VERTEBRATES; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

ACANTHOSTEGA; ICHTHYOSTEGA; PEDERPES; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84873720715     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11825     Document Type: Article

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