Hyoliths are Palaeozoic lophophorates

Joseph Moysiuk (), Martin R. Smith and Jean-Bernard Caron ()
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Joseph Moysiuk: University of Toronto
Martin R. Smith: University of Cambridge
Jean-Bernard Caron: University of Toronto

Nature, 2017, vol. 541, issue 7637, 394-397

Abstract: Analysis of exceptionally preserved fossils of the Cambrian hyolith Haplophrentis leads to a proposed evolutionary relationship with Lophophorata, the group containing brachiopods and phoronids, on the basis of a newly described tentacular feeding apparatus.

Date: 2017
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