| Range |
~575 million years ago
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| Organism |
Metazoa animals |
| Reference |
Peterson KJ, Cotton JA, Gehling JG, Pisani D. The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 Apr 27 363(1496):1435-43. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2233 p.1439 right column bottom paragraphPubMed ID18192191
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| Primary Source |
Nielsen C Animal evolution: interrelationships of the living phyla. 2001 Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. |
| Comments |
P.1439 right column bottom paragraph: "What about other higher-level clades? [Investigators'] estimates suggest that arthropods diverged from priapulids ca 575 Myr ago, suggesting that stem-group panarthropods (primary source) should be present in Upper Ediacaran rocks." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
117102 |