Embryos, polyps and medusae of the early Cambrian scyphozoan Olivooides

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1757, 2013, Pages

  Dong, Xi Ping ^a,b   Cunningham, John A ^c   Bengtson, Stefan ^d   Thomas, Ceri Wyn ^c   Liu, Jianbo ^a   Stampanoni, Marco ^e,f   Donoghue, Philip C J ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cnidarian; Embryo; Fossil; Medusa; Olivooides; Scyphozoan

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CAMBRIAN; EMBRYO; EUKARYOTE; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYP;

ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; ECHINODERMATA; HYDROIDA; OLIVOOIDES; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 84878460696     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0071     Document Type: Article

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