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Extraordinary fossils reveal the nature of Cambrian life: a commentary on Whittington (1975) ‘The enigmatic animal Opabinia regalis, Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale, British Columbia’
Harry Whittington's 1975 monograph on Opabinia was the first to highlight how some of the Burgess Shale animals differ markedly from those that populate today's oceans. Categorized by Stephen J. Gould as a ‘weird wonder’ (Wonderful life, 1989) Opabinia, together with other unusual Burgess...
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The Royal Society
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4360120/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25750235 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0313 |