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An Introduction to the Invertebrates, Second Edition - tiera.ru

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16 THE PATTERN OF EVOLUTION: METHODS OF INVESTIGATIONFig. 2.2The geological succession.of living animals show that common preda<strong>to</strong>ry gastropods attackbarnacles at <strong>the</strong>se junctions. The plate reduction coincided with <strong>the</strong>rise of this family of predacious gastropods in <strong>the</strong> Cretaceous.Fur<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>the</strong> one lineage with no plate reduction is Chenobia,barnacles living on turtles and free from gastropod predation.2.4 Can <strong>the</strong> fossilrecord date <strong>the</strong> earliestappearance of animals?The difficulty is that all <strong>the</strong> main phyla seem <strong>to</strong> have appeared overa relatively short period of time in <strong>the</strong> Cambrian. Modern methods

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