Brittle star fossils found in South Africa are over 410 million years old, the oldest known examples who lived at high latitude
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Brittle star fossils found in South Africa are over 410 million years old, the oldest known examples who lived at high latitude
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292636
Article Title: Earliest known ophiuroids from high palaeolatitude, southern Gondwana, recovered from the Pragian to earliest Emsian Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group, Cape Supergroup) South Africa
Author Countries: South Africa, Luxembourg
Funding: RWG: Millennium Trust, South Africa (no number). https://www.mtrust.co.za RWG and CR: GENUS (DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences), South Africa (no number). https://www.genus.africa RWG: NRF of South Africa (no number). https://www.nrf.ac.za The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292636
Article Title: Earliest known ophiuroids from high palaeolatitude, southern Gondwana, recovered from the Pragian to earliest Emsian Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group, Cape Supergroup) South Africa
Author Countries: South Africa, Luxembourg
Funding: RWG: Millennium Trust, South Africa (no number). https://www.mtrust.co.za RWG and CR: GENUS (DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences), South Africa (no number). https://www.genus.africa RWG: NRF of South Africa (no number). https://www.nrf.ac.za The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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