Newly described microfossil bicellum brasieri (IMAGE)

Boston College

Newly described microfossil bicellum brasieri

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This enhanced image of Bicellum brasieri shows an outer wall of sausage-shaped cells enclosing an inner cell mass. The fossil reveals multicellular structure in an early animal form 400 million years earlier than previously established.

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P.K. Strother

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