Fossils from South China redefine the ancestral euarthropod body plan
Abstract Background Early Cambrian Lagerstätten from China have greatly enriched our perspective on the early evolution of animals, particularly arthropods. However, recent studies have shown that many of these early fossil arthropods were more derived than previously thought, casting uncertainty on...
Main Authors: | Cédric Aria, Fangchen Zhao, Han Zeng, Jin Guo, Maoyan Zhu |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-01-01
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Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1560-7 |
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