A superarmored lobopodian from the Cambrian of China and early disparity in the evolution of Onychophora

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 28, 2015, Pages 8678-8683

  Yang, Jie ^a   Ortega Hernández, Javier ^b   Gerber, Sylvain ^b   Butterfield, Nicholas J ^b   Hou, Jin Bo ^a   Lan, Tian ^a   Zhang, Xi Guang ^a  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cambrian explosion; Collins' monster; Evolution; Phylogeny; Xiaoshiba Lagersta tte

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMINERALIZATION; CHINA; CLADISTICS; COLLINSIUM CILIOSUM; EVOLUTION; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LOWER CAMBRIAN; MIDDLE CAMBRIAN; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; ONYCHOPHORA; PALEOZOIC; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL;

ONYCHOPHORA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84937149047     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1505596112     Document Type: Article

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