Exceptional fossil preservation demonstrates a new mode of axial skeleton elongation in early ray-finned fishes

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Maxwell, Erin E ^a   Furrer, Heinz ^a   Sánchez Villagra, Marcelo R ^a  

^a PALÄONTOLOGISCHES INSTITUT UND MUSEUM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; FOSSIL; LADINIAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SKELETON; SOFT TISSUE; SWITZERLAND; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FIN (ORGAN); MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINE; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY;

ACTINOPTERYGII; PISCES; TELEOST FISH; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL FINS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; EUROPE; FISHES; FOSSILS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; SPINE;

EID: 84891143208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3570     Document Type: Article

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