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GEOLOGY
Volume 32, Issue 10, Pages 833-836Publisher
GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER, INC
DOI: 10.1130/G20567.1
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Yangtze platform; Cambrian; embryos; larvae; ontogeny
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Although knowledge of exceptional Cambrian fossil Lagerstatten has increased dramatically, relatively little information has been uncovered about the early ontogeny of ancient Metazoa. Here we describe new phosphatized eggs and embryos, partly indicating germ band formation, and the earliest known larvae of early bilaterians. Developmental sequences are reconstructed for Pseudooides- and tetramerous-type embryos. Together with these developmental sequences, patterns of germ band formation, irregular radial cleavage types, and unciliated larva with serial divisions and a posterior segment indicate affinities with protostomes, most probably within an ancestral arthropodan lineage.
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