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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Auteurs principaux: Briggs, D, Sutton, MD, Siveter, D
Format: Journal article
Langue:English
Publié: 2005