PaleontologyPalaiosPeer-reviewed
Lack of early animal fossils: insights from taphonomic experiments on placozoans and their traces
Е. Б. Наймарк, Yu. V. Lyupina, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Nikitin, Alexander D. Finoshin
This paper shows that Trichoplax, a simple animal, is unlikely to fossilize due to rapid post-mortem disintegration, but their traces may leave ichnofossils.
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