Arthroaspis n. gen., a common element of the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte (Cambrian, North Greenland), sheds light on trilobite ancestry

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Stein, Martin ^a   Budd, Graham E ^b   Peel, John S ^b   Harper, David At ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appendages; Arthropoda; Functional morphology; Lamellipedia; Pygidium; Sirius Passet Lagerst tte; Trilobita

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; LIGHT EFFECT; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; PALEOZOIC; STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOR; TAXONOMY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; NEKTASPIDA; PYGIDIUM; TRILOBITA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GREENLAND; HISTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GREENLAND;

EID: 84877256976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-99     Document Type: Article

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