Life in the Cambrian sea (IMAGE)

Swedish Museum of Natural History

Life in the Cambrian sea

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Reconstruction of the early Cambrian seafloor, depicting colonies of Protomelission gatehousei and Dayingomelission hexaclitia living among archaeocyath reefs in shallow seas approximately 520 million years ago.

 

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Zhifei Zhang

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