• DOI:10.1666/12029
Corpus ID: 85744624

Nectocaridid ecology, diversity, and affinity: early origin of a cephalopod-like body plan

@inproceedings{Smith2013NectocarididED,
  title={Nectocaridid ecology, diversity, and affinity: early origin of a cephalopod-like body plan},
  author={M. Smith},
  booktitle={Paleobiology},
  year={2013}
}

• M. Smith
• Published in Paleobiology 2013
• Biology

Abstract Nectocaridids are soft-bodied early to middle Cambrian organisms known from Burgess Shale-type deposits in Canada, China, and Australia. Originally described as unrelated species, they have recently been interpreted as a clade; their flexible tentacles, camera-type eyes, lateral fins, internal gills, axial cavity, and funnel point to a relationship with the cephalopods. However, aspects of this reinterpretation, including the relevance of the group to cephalopod evolution, have been… Expand

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