Carbonaceous preservation of Cambrian hexactinellid sponge spicules
Early fossil sponges offer a direct window onto the evolutionary emergence of animals, but insights are limited by the paucity of characters preserved in the conventional fossil record. Here, a new preservational mode for sponge spicules is reported from the lower Cambrian Forteau Formation (Newfoun...
Published in: | Biology Letters |
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The Royal Society
2010
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Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001373 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20554559 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0377 |