A silurian myodocope with preserved soft-parts: Cautioning the interpretation of the shell-based ostracod record

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1752, 2013, Pages

  Siveter, David J ^a   Briggs, Derek E G ^b   Siveter, Derek J ^c   Sutton, Mark D ^d   Joomun, Sarah C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exceptional preservation; Herefordshire lagerst tte; Myodocopa; Myodocopida; Ostracoda; Silurian

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; OSTRACOD; PRESERVATION; SHELL; SILURIAN;

ENGLAND; HEREFORDSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; CYLINDROLEBERIDIDAE; HALOCYPRIDA; MYODOCOPA; MYODOCOPIDA; OSTRACODA; PALAEOCOPIDA;

EID: 84879060230     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2664     Document Type: Article

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