Specialized appendages in fuxianhuiids and the head organization of early euarthropods

Nature

Volumn 494, Issue 7438, 2013, Pages 468-471

  Yang, Jie ^a   Ortega Hernández, Javier ^b   Butterfield, Nicholas J ^b   Zhang, Xi Guang ^a  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CAMBRIAN; DATA SET; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HOMOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; TAPHONOMY;

ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CHENGJIANGOCARIS KUNMINGENSIS; CHINA; EUARTHROPOD; FOSSIL; HEAD; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CHINA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EXTREMITIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSILS; HEAD; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MOUTH; MOVEMENT; PHYLOGENY;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 84874372432     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11874     Document Type: Article

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