"modern" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the 1970s there was already a debate about whether the emergence of the modern phyla was "explosive" or gradual but hidden by the shortage of Pre-Cambrian animal fossils.
- These provide firm data points for the "end" of the explosion, or at least indications that the crown groups of modern phyla were represented.
- Some may represent precursors of modern phyla, but they may be separate groups, and it is possible they are not really animals at all.
- The Cambrian Period witnessed the most rapid and widespread diversification of life in Earth's history, known as the Cambrian explosion, in which most modern phyla first appeared.
- Besides including the earliest known representatives of some modern phyla, they have the great advantage of presenting a nearly continuous record of Early Cambrian organisms whose bodies include hard parts.
- By the end all modern phyla had evolved, and since then no new phyla have appeared in the fossil record.
- But the Burgess motor of invention had been shut off by then, and nearly all the beautiful fossils of Mazon Creek fit comfortably into modern phyla.
- Such a ring of tentacles would strongly resemble a lophophore--the feeding structure of several modern phyla, notably the bryozoans and brachiopods.
- After all, they include representatives of nearly all modern phyla, and what could be more different, one from the other, than a trilobite, a snail, a brachiopod, and an echinoderm?
- Gephyrea is a now-dismantled taxon that was considered to be a class of annulated worms, containing the three modern phyla Echiura, Sipuncula, and Priapulida.
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