Sponge grade body fossil with cellular resolution dating 60 Myr before the Cambrian

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

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2015, Pages E1453-E1460

  Yina, Zongjun ^a   Zhu, Maoyan ^a   Davidson, Eric H ^b   Bottjer, David J ^c   Zhao, Fangchen ^a   Tafforeau, Paul ^d  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

Doushantuo formation; Metazoan phylogeny; Precambrian; Sponge fossil; Synchrotron x ray tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CAMBRIAN; CELL STRUCTURE; EOCYATHISPONGIA QIANIA; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPONGE (PORIFERA); SURFACE PROPERTY; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; SYNCHROTRON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GENOMICS; GEOLOGY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SYNCHROTRONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY;

EID: 84985023476     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414577112     Document Type: Article

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