Earth’s oldest ‘Bobbit worm’ – gigantism in a Devonian eunicidan polychaete
Whilst the fossil record of polychaete worms extends to the early Cambrian, much data on this group derive from microfossils known as scolecodonts. These are sclerotized jaw elements, which generally range from 0.1–2 mm in size, and which, in contrast to the soft-body anatomy, have good preservation...
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Springer Nature
2017
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