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Morphological variation suggests that chitinozoans may be fossils of individual microorganisms rather than metazoan eggs

Chitinozoans are organic-walled microfossils widely recorded in Ordovician to Devonian (ca 485–359 Mya) marine sediments and extensively used in high-resolution biostratigraphy. Their biological affinity remains unknown, but most commonly, they are interpreted as eggs of marine metazoans. Here, we p...

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Autores principales: Liang, Yan, Bernardo, Joseph, Goldman, Daniel, Nõlvak, Jaak, Tang, Peng, Wang, Wenhui, Hints, Olle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6710598/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31362642
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1270

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