Palaeontology - yAncient worms in armour

被引:6
作者
Caron, Jean-Bernard [1 ]
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[1] Royal Ontario Museum, Dept Nat Hist, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6, Canada
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10.1038/451133a
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
It requires a quirk of fossilization for the soft parts of an animal to be preserved. Study of such a specimen of the mysterious machaeridians provides these organisms with a well defined evolutionary home.
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