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Nectocaris is an infamous fossil from the exceptional Burgess Shale soft-bodied fossil deposit. 91 new specimens allow us, finally, to provide a full reconstruction of this organism – which represents the earliest fossil 'cephalopod'. Nectocaris does not match the expected body plan of the ancestral cephalopod, potentially prompting a re-think of cephalopod evolution.
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This page is a summary of: Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian, Nature, May 2010, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1038/nature09068.
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