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Fangchen Zhao

Chinese Academy of SciencesORCID 0000-0001-8473-4439Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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PaleontologyRoyal Society Open SciencePeer-reviewedOct 1, 2025

Advanced adaptive strategies in an ancestral body plan: insights from a 510-Ma-old leptomitid sponge

Cui Luo, Yanjie Hong, Zhixin Sun…·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.

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PaleontologybioRxivPreprintDec 7, 2023

Not dasycladalean alga, but an Odyssey of the earliest Phanerozoic animal reef-builders

Aihua Yang, Cui Luo, Jian Han…·Shixue Hu

The paper reclassifies Protomelission? sp. as archaeocyath-like sponges, challenging previous interpretations and providing insights into early animal reef-building.

DOI 10.1101/2023.12.07.570709

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