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

Muscle tissue is a fundamentally eumetazoan attribute. The oldest evidence for fossilized muscular tissue before the Early Cambrian has hitherto remained moot, being reliant upon indirect evidence in the form of Late Ediacaran ichnofossils. We here report a candidate muscle-bearing organism, Haootia...

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Autores principales: Liu, Alexander G., Matthews, Jack J., Menon, Latha R., McIlroy, Duncan, Brasier, Martin D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4173675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25165764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1202

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