A primitive fish from the Cambrian of North America

Simon Conway Morris () and Jean-Bernard Caron ()
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Simon Conway Morris: University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK
Jean-Bernard Caron: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada

Nature, 2014, vol. 512, issue 7515, 419-422

Abstract: Fossils of Metaspriggina, one of the earliest known and most primitive fishes, are described, with the structure of the gills shown to presage that of jawed vertebrates in many ways.

Date: 2014
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