1. A new fossil bristle worm (Annelida: Polychaeta: Aphroditiformia) from the late Cretaceous of tropical America
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Javier Luque, Olev Vinn, Stéphane Hourdez, Departament de Fisicoquímica and Institut de Biomedicina, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Adaptation et Biologie des Invertébrés en Conditions Extrêmes (ABICE), Adaptation et diversité en milieu marin (AD2M), Station biologique de Roscoff [Roscoff] (SBR), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Station biologique de Roscoff [Roscoff] (SBR), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Geology, University of Tartu, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Sepkoski Grant (Paleontological Society), Estonian Science Foundation grant [ETF9064], Palaeontological Association Research Grant, Estonian Research Council grant [IUT20-34], Estonian Ministry of Education and Science [SF0180051s08], Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship (NSERC CGS-D, Canada), and NSERC Canada discovery grant [A7245]
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Polychaete ,Fossil Record ,biology ,Ecology ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Paleontology ,biology.organism_classification ,Bristle ,Cretaceous ,Genus ,[SDE]Environmental Sciences ,Mesozoic ,Global biodiversity - Abstract
A new species of aphroditiform polychaete, Protopholoe colombiana, is described from the Coniacian of Colombia, South America, increasing the number of species of this genus known from the fossil record to two. This is the first occurrence of fossil soft-bodied polychaetes in the Tropical Americas, and indicates that aphroditiforms were spread worldwide during the Mesozoic.
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- 2015