Advanced adaptive strategies in an ancestral body plan: insights from a 510-Ma-old leptomitid sponge
Cui Luo, Yanjie Hong, Zhixin Sun, Haijing Sun, S. L. Lim, Tianyu Wang, Lei Zhang, Fangchen Zhao
The paper describes a new Cambrian sponge fossil with adaptive features but retains an ancestral body plan, highlighting evolutionary innovation and structural conservatism in early sponges.
Royal Society Open Science · Oct 1, 2025Peer-reviewedPaleontology