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Earth’s oldest ‘Bobbit worm’ – gigantism in a Devonian eunicidan polychaete

Whilst the fossil record of polychaete worms extends to the early Cambrian, much data on this group derive from microfossils known as scolecodonts. These are sclerotized jaw elements, which generally range from 0.1–2 mm in size, and which, in contrast to the soft-body anatomy, have good preservation...

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Autores principales: Eriksson, Mats E., Parry, Luke A., Rudkin, David M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5318920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28220886
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep43061