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Microstructure of the Tubes of Cambrian Zooproblematics of the Family Hyolithellidae

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The microstructure of tubes of the genus Hyolithellus from the stratotype sections of the Tommotian and Botomian stages of the Lower Cambrian of the Siberian Platform (Lena, Aldan, Sinyaya rivers) are studied. The tube walls are shown to have a three-layer structure. The microstructure of the outer and inner layers of hyolithellid tubes is described for the first time.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author is grateful to N.V. Esakova for material from the Vaskina Protoka section, Aldan River (collection 1981), P.Yu. Parkhaev for providing samples of rocks from the Sinyaya River (collection 2009), and R.A. Rakitov for his help in working on the Tescan Vega III EMS of the Instrumental Analytics Laboratory of the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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The study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 19-04-01027a).

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Demidenko, Y.E. Microstructure of the Tubes of Cambrian Zooproblematics of the Family Hyolithellidae. Paleontol. J. 55, 477–488 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030121050038

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