Malformations in Late Devonian brachiopods from the western Junggar, NW China and their potential causes

Although malformations are found in both extant organisms and the fossil record, they are more rarely reported in the fossil record than in living organisms, and the environmental factors causing the malformations are much more difficult to identify for the fossil record. Two athyrid brachiopod taxa...

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Main Authors: Ruiwen Zong, Yiming Gong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2022-05-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/13447.pdf