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SUBMITTER: Zhang XG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5046927 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Xi-Guang XG Smith Martin R MR Yang Jie J Hou Jin-Bo JB
Biology letters 20160901 9
The restricted, exclusively terrestrial distribution of modern Onychophora contrasts strikingly with the rich diversity of onychophoran-like fossils preserved in marine Cambrian Lagerstätten The transition from these early forebears to the modern onychophoran body plan is poorly constrained, in part owing to the absence of fossils preserving details of the soft anatomy. Here, we report muscle tissue in a new early Cambrian (Stage 3) lobopodian, Tritonychus phanerosarkus gen. et sp. nov., preserv ...[more]