Metamorphosis in a Silurian barnacle.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Wenlock Series (Silurian) of Herefordshire, UK, provide unique evidence of metamorphosis from free-swimming cyprid larva to attached juvenile in a Palaeozoic barnacle. The larva had large brush-like anterior limbs. The juvenile shows the head transformed into...

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Main Authors: Briggs, D, Sutton, MD, Siveter, D
格式: Journal article
語言:English
出版: 2005

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