A remarkable illaenid trilobite from the Middle Ordovician of Morocco
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Digestive and appendicular soft-parts, with behavioural implications, in a large Ordovician trilobite from the Fezouata Lagerstätte, Morocco
Trilobites were one of the most successful groups of marine arthropods during the Palaeozoic era, yet their soft-part anatomy is only known from a few exceptionally-preserved specimens found in a handful of localities from the Cambrian to the Devonian. This is because, even if the sclerotized appendages were not destroyed during early taphonomic stages, they are often overprinted by the three-d...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of Geosciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1802-8225,1214-1119
DOI: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1467