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| Title: |
Worms that might be 300 million years old |
| Author: |
Boggemann, Markus |
| Appeared in: |
Marine biology research |
| Paging: | Volume 2 (2006) nr. 2 pages 130-135 |
| Year: |
2006-04-01 |
| Contents: |
Annelida is one of the most evolutionarily successful phyla and because they diversified in the Palaeozoic, understanding their evolutionary history is paramount to explaining the evolution of animal life. Glyceriformia is now one of the best morphologically investigated clades within Annelida. Recent species are important, widely distributed, endopsammal benthic predators and occur from intertidal to abyssal depths. Larger species are popular subjects for ecological, physiological and biochemical studies. A morphology-based cladistic analysis was carried out at the genus level and supports the monophyly of Glyceridae and Goniadidae. Furthermore, fossils confirm that the morphological ground pattern of Glyceriformia is unchanged since the Carboniferous and their scolecodonts might be useful as index fossils for geology. |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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