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How the Mollusks Got Their Teeth

University of Toronto graduate student Martin Smith has for the first time reconstructed mouthparts of two mollusk-like animals Odontogriphus and Wiwaxia that lived in Cambrian seas 500 million years ago.

Illustration: Wiwaxia corrugata (Matthew, 1899)
Lophotrochozoa
Halwaxiida
Wiwaxiidae

Cambrian
Burgess Shale
British Columbia, Canada

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Posted on August 29, 2012 | Permalink

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