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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Формат: | Journal article |
Хэл сонгох: | English |
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2005
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