Haootia quadriformis n. gen., n. sp., interpreted as a muscular cnidarian impression from the Late Ediacaran period (approx. 560 Ma)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1793, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Alexander G ^a   Matthews, Jack J ^b   Menon, Latha R ^b   McIlroy, Duncan ^c   Brasier, Martin D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cnidaria; Ediacaran; Metazoan; Muscle; Newfoundland

Indexed keywords

EDIACARAN; FOSSIL RECORD; METAZOAN; MUSCLE; TAPHONOMY;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CNIDARIA; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CNIDARIA; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85006317999     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1202     Document Type: Article

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