The fossil record and the early evolution of the Metazoa

Morris, S. Conway

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The fossil record and the early evolution of the Metazoa

Morris, S. Conway·1993·Nature

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Pre-Vendian animals are likely to have been small and soft-bodied, because known fossils of Precambrian animals lack hard parts and thus would have had poor fossilization potential.
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Authors: Morris, S. C.
Affiliations: University of Cambridge (GB)
Corresponding author: Morris, S. Conway
Venue: Nature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 1993-01
Volume: 361
Issue: 6409
Pages: 219-225
ISSN: 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/361219a0
OpenAlex: W2143380472
Semantic Scholar: 193c8ab078f0d9e9d74e7abe10305f7a72809b0f
Cited by: 389
References: 87
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FWCI: 41.54
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Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature (publishedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
Keywords: animals, early animal evolution, fossil record, multicellular animals, metazoan phylogeny, Cambrian explosion, molecular phylogeny

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