Early post-metamorphic, Carboniferous blastoid reveals the evolution and development of the digestive system in echinoderms

Inferring the development of the earliest echinoderms is critical to uncovering the evolutionary assembly of the phylum-level body plan but has long proven problematic because early ontogenetic stages are rarely preserved as fossils. Here, we use synchrotron tomography to describe a new early post-m...

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Main Authors: Rahman, I, Waters, J, Sumrall, C, Astolfo, A
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: Royal Society 2015