Exceptional Fossil Preservation and the Cambrian Explosion1

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Integrative and Comparative Biology

• Publication date

  2003-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Mathematics, Geology

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  DOI 10.1093/icb/43.1.166PMID 21680421
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