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Oldest Australian crayfish fossils provide missing evolutionary link

02-06-2008 · EurekAlert!

Crayfish body fossils and burrows discovered in Victoria, Australia, have provided the first physical evidence that crayfish existed on the continent as far back as the Mesozoic Era, says Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin, who headed up a study on the finds.

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