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IN a world where fossil names become ever more prolific, it is unusual to have the opportunity to reverse the trend. Anellotubulates, “an independent morphologic group of organisms”, were first described by Wetzel1,2 and later placed by him in the family Mikrocalycidae3. There followed a detailed publication by McLachlan4, describing world-wide occurrences of anellotubulates and giving a detailed morphological description of these ‘fossils’.
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RICHARDSON, G., GREGORY, D. & POLLARD, J. Anellotubulates are Manufactured ‘Microfossils’. Nature 246, 347–348 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/246347a0
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