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A new calmanostracan crustacean species from the Cretaceous Yixian Formation and a simple approach for differentiating fossil tadpole shrimps and their relatives

BACKGROUND: Calmanostraca is a group of branchiopod eucrustaceans, with Triops cancriformis and Lepidurus apus as most prominent representatives. Both are regularly addressed with the inaccurate tag “living fossil”, suggesting that the morphology has remained stable for several millions of years. Ye...

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Autores principales: Wagner, Philipp, Haug, Joachim T., Haug, Carolin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6582493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31245037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40851-019-0136-0