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Article: Fossilized ontogenies: the contribution of placoderm ontogeny to our understanding of the evolution of early gnathostomes

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 57
Part: 3
Publication Date: May 2014
Page(s): 505 – 516
Author(s): <p>Zerina Johanson and Kate Trinajstic</p>
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JOHANSON, Z. and TRINAJSTIC, K., 2014, Fossilized ontogenies: the contribution of placoderm ontogeny to our understanding of the evolution of early gnathostomes. Palaeontology, 57, 3, 505–516. doi: 10.1111/pala.12093

Author Information

  • Zerina Johanson - Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK (email: z.johanson@nhm.ac.uk)
  • Kate Trinajstic - Western Australian Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre, Department of Chemistry, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (email: k.trinajstic@curtin.edu.au)
  • Kate Trinajstic - Earth and Planetary Sciences, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Publication History

  • Issue published online: 7 MAY 2014
  • Article first published online: 7 JAN 2014
  • Manuscript Accepted: 20 NOV 2013
  • Manuscript Received: 2 SEP 2013

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Australian Research Council QEII Fellowship. Grant Numbers: DP110101127, DP1092870

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