Critical appraisal of tubular putative eumetazoans from the Ediacaran Weng’an Doushantuo biota

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1812, 2015, Pages

  Cunningham, John A ^a,b   Vargas, Kelly ^a   Pengju, Liu ^c   Belivanova, Veneta ^b   Marone, Federica ^d   Martínez Pérez, Carlos ^a,e   Guizar Sicairos, Manuel ^d   Holler, Mirko ^d   Bengtson, Stefan ^b   Donoghue, Philip C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Doushantuo; Ediacaran; Exceptional fossilization; Tubular fossils

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CORAL; DATA SET; EDIACARAN; FOSSIL RECORD; JELLYFISH; METAZOAN; MICROFOSSIL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYP; TAXONOMY;

CHINA; GUIZHOU; WENGAN;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; EUMETAZOA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INVERTEBRATE; MORPHOGENESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CHINA; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; FOSSILS; INVERTEBRATES;

EID: 84937389245     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1169     Document Type: Article

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