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PALAEONTOLOGY
卷 62, 期 5, 页码 851-865出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12431
关键词
Ediacaran; Eumetazoa; frondose; modularity
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- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/L002434/1, NE/L011409/2]
- Australian Research Council [DP0453393]
- NERC [bgs05017, NE/L011409/2] Funding Source: UKRI
Organisms in possession of a frondose body plan are amongst the oldest and most enigmatic members of the soft-bodied Ediacaran macrobiota. Appraisal of specimens from the late Ediacaran Ediacara Member of South Australia reveals that the frondose taxon Arborea arborea probably possessed a fluid-filled holdfast disc, the size and form of which could vary within populations. Mouldic preservation of internal anatomical features provides evidence for tissue differentiation, and for bundles of tubular structures within the stalk of the organism. These structures connect in a fascicled arrangement to individual lateral branches, before dividing further into individual units housed on those branches. The observed fascicled branching arrangement, which seemingly connects individual units to the main body of the organism, is consistent with a biologically modular construction for Arborea, and raises the possibility of a colonial organization. In conjunction with morphological characters previously recognized by other authors, including apical-basal and front-back differentiation, we propose that to the exclusion of all alternative known possibilities, Arborea can be resolved as a total group eumetazoan.
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