Catching the first fish

Philippe Janvier
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Philippe Janvier: the Laboratoire de Paléontologie (UMR 8569 du CNRS), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Nature, 1999, vol. 402, issue 6757, 21-22

Abstract: Most major animal groups appear suddenly in the fossil record 550 million years ago, but vertebrates have been absent from this ‘Big Bang’ of life. Two fish-like animals from Early Cambrian rocks now fill this gap.

Date: 1999
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