Progress in echinoderm paleobiology

Echinoderms are a diverse and successful phylum of exclusively marine invertebrates that have an extensive fossil record dating back to Cambrian Stage 3 (Zamora and Rahman, 2014). There are five extant classes of echinoderms (asteroids, crinoids, echinoids, holothurians, and ophiuroids), but more th...

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Autores: Zamora Iranzo, Samuel Andrés, Rahman, Imran A.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/277073
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/277073
https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2017.20
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:fauna equinodermo
paleobiología
Paleontología
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Sumario:Echinoderms are a diverse and successful phylum of exclusively marine invertebrates that have an extensive fossil record dating back to Cambrian Stage 3 (Zamora and Rahman, 2014). There are five extant classes of echinoderms (asteroids, crinoids, echinoids, holothurians, and ophiuroids), but more than 20 extinct groups, all of which are restricted to the Paleozoic (Sumrall and Wray, 2007). As a result, to fully appreciate the modern diversity of echinoderms, it is necessary to study their rich fossil record.