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SUBMITTER: Charbonnier S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2275891 | biostudies-other | 2007 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Charbonnier S S Vannier J J Riou B B
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20071001 1625
The diverse and exceptionally well-preserved pycnogonids described herein from the Middle Jurassic La Voulte Lagerstätte fill a 400 Myr gap of knowledge in the evolutionary history of this enigmatic group of marine arthropods. They reveal very close morphological and functional (locomotion, feeding) similarities with present-day pycnogonids and, by contrast, marked differences with all Palaeozoic representatives of the group. This suggests a relatively recent, possibly Mesozoic origin for at lea ...[more]