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In different groups of fossil brachiopods new adaptations were formed by changes in size, shape, and proportions of morphological structures in ontogenetic and phylogenetic development.
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Afanasjeva, G.A. Allometric studies of fossil brachiopods. Paleontol. J. 49, 1576–1581 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030115140026
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