ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Discovery of the oldest bilaterian from the Ediacaran of South Australia.
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Abstract
Analysis of modern animals and Ediacaran trace fossils predicts that the oldest bilaterians were simple and small. Such organisms would be difficult to recognize in the fossil record, but should have been part of the Ediacara Biota, the earliest preserved macroscopic, complex animal communities. Here, we describe
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