Cutting the first 'teeth': A new approach to functional analysis of conodont elements

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1768, 2013, Pages

  Murdock, Duncan J E ^a   Sansom, Ivan J ^b   Donoghue, Philip C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conodonta; Function; Panderodus; Second moment of inertia; Vertebrata

Indexed keywords

CONODONT; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBIOLOGY; TAXONOMY; TOMOGRAPHY; TOOTH;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; DENTITION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; PHYSIOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DENTITION; FOSSILS; PHYSIOLOGY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84903272637     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1524     Document Type: Article

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