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Centimeter-wide worm-like fossils from the lowest Cambrian of South China

The trace fossil record implies that large worm-like animals were in place along with the skeletonizing organisms during the initial stage of the Cambrian explosion. Body fossils of large worms, however, have so far not been found. Here, we describe a large, soft-bodied, worm-like organism, Vittatus...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Xingliang, Liu, Wei, Isozaki, Yukio, Sato, Tomohiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5674079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29109509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15089-y