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The fossil record and the early evolution of the Metazoa
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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 (26) and thus would have had poor fossilization potential.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Morris, S. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Morris, S. Conway
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1993-01
- Volume
- 361
- Issue
- 6409
- Pages
- 219-225
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2143380472
- Semantic Scholar
- 193c8ab078f0d9e9d74e7abe10305f7a72809b0f
- Cited by
- 389
- References
- 87
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- FWCI
- 41.54
- Type
- journal article
- 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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