Abstract Limestones of the Xihaoping Member of the Dengying Formation in the Xiaoyangba section, South China, yield the oldest known Cambrian brachiopod–trilobite association. In …
M Luo, F Liu, Y Liang, LC Strotz, J Wang, Y Hu, B Song… - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Small skeletal fossils are reported for the first time from the early Cambrian Guojiaba Formation, southern Shaanxi, China. All specimens were recovered from bioclastic …
Biologically controlled mineral crystals producing organic-inorganic composites (hard skeletons) by metazoan biomineralizers has been an evolutionary innovation for more than …
Acrotretides are extinct micromorphic brachiopods that exhibited considerable morphological variation during their rapid evolution in the early Palaeozoic. The plano …
M Steiner, SV Hohl, B Yang… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Central Asian Orogenic Belt is complex and little understood in its geotectonic history. Here, we apply a new approach to conclude on the paleogeography of major …
H Jahangir, Z Zhang, LE Popov… - Papers in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Schizambon is one of the earliest and most distinctive genera in the Order Siphonotretida. However, current knowledge of siphonotretide phylogeny and early evolution requires …
B Wei, Y Wang, X Yang, W Wu - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A number of well-preserved fossils of Hadrotreta were found in the Tsinghsutung Formation of Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4 in Jianhe, Guizhou, south China by …
Biologically-controlled mineralization producing organic-inorganic composites (hard skeletons) by metazoan biomineralizers has been an evolutionary innovation since the …