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"name": "Supplementary information from Microbial decay analysis challenges interpretation of putative organ systems in Cambrian fuxianhuiids",
"author": [
{
"name": "Jianni Liu"
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{
"name": "Michael Steiner",
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{
"name": "Jason A. Dunlop",
"givenName": "Jason A.",
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{
"name": "Degan Shu"
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"description": "The Chengjiang fossil Lagerstätte (Cambrian Stage 3) from Yunnan, southern China is renowned for its soft-tissue preservation. Accordingly structures in fuxianhuiids, radiodontans and great appendage arthropods have been interpreted as the nervous and cardiovascular systems, including brains, hearts and blood vessels. That such delicate organ systems survive the fossilization process seems remarkable; given that this mode of preservation involves major taphonomic changes, such as flattening, microbial degradation, chemical alteration and replacement. Here, we document a range of taphonomic preservation states in numerous articulated individuals of Fuxianhuia protensa. We suggest that organic (partly iron mineral-replaced) bulbous structures in the head region, previously interpreted as brain tissue, along with sagittally located organic strands interpreted as part of the cardiovascular system or as nerve cords, may be better explained as microbial biofilms that developed following decomposition of the intestine, muscle and other connective tissues, forming halos surrounding the original organic remains.",
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"keywords": "Evolutionary Biology, FOS: Biological sciences, FOS: Biological sciences, 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology), FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences, FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences, 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy, 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy",
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"dateCreated": "2018-03-24",
"datePublished": "2018",
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