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THE Echinoidea afford probably greater opportunities for accurate phylogenetic study than any other class of animals. This is due to the fact that a fossil Echinoid is, when well preserved, often as complete for morphological, and even ontogenetic, examination as a recent specimen. No work on recent Echinoids could be adequately carried out without reference to the fossil forms, while any classification of the group based on structures other than skeletal would exclude more than half the available material.
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H., H. Palæozoic and other Echinoids 1 . Nature 91, 147–148 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091147a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/091147a0