The anatomy of Euphanerops longaevus Woodward, 1900, an anaspid-like jawless vertebrate from the Upper Devonian of Miguasha, Quebec, Canada

• Main Authors: Janvier, Philippe, Arsenault, Marius
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• Published: Zenodo 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Pisces awaiting allocation; Svalbard; Canada; Norway; Kerr; Briggs; Caldwell; Gulch; Conway; Woodward; Coates; Denison; Clarkson; Marinelli; Ritchie; Gardiner; Nordishav*; Spitsberg; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5377454; https://zenodo.org/record/5377454

Janvier, Philippe, Arsenault, Marius (2007): The anatomy of Euphanerops longaevus Woodward, 1900, an anaspid-like jawless vertebrate from the Upper Devonian of Miguasha, Quebec, Canada. Geodiversitas 29 (1): 143-216, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5377455 : {"references": ["ALDRIDGE R. J. & THERON J. N. 1993. - Conodonts with preserved soft tissue from a new Ordovician Konservat-Lagerstatte. Journal of Micropalaeontology 12: 113-117.", "ALDRIDGE R. J., BRIGGS D. E. G. & CLARKSON E. N. K. 1986. - The affinities of the conodonts - new evidence from the Carboniferous of Edinburgh, Scotland. Lethaia 19: 279-291.", "ARSENAULT M. & JANVIER P. 1991. - The anaspidlike craniates of the Escuminac Formation (Upper Devonian) from Miguasha (Quebec, Canada) with remarks on anaspid-petromyzontid relationships, in CHANG M. M., LIU Y. H. & ZHANG G. R. (eds), Early Vertebrates and Related Problems of Evolutionary Biology. 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