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Fossil embryos deep in the fossil record
Embryos have been found in ‘old’ rocks on four continents, especially in Siberia, Nevada, Australia and China. They have been discovered in sedimentary rocks of even Late Neoproterozoic age, assuming the evolutionary geological column1 (figure 1). The Neoproterozoic is the period, so called, between 1 billion and 550 million years ago. This discovery was in the Doushantuo Formation, Guizhou Pro...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Botanical Gazette
سال: 1908
ISSN: 0006-8071
DOI: 10.1086/329459