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The Chitinozoa (Greek words “chitin” = organic ; “zoa” = animal) are flask-, urn-, or bottle-shaped, hollow organic vesicles of uncertain biological affinity, first described by Eisenack (1930) from the erratic boulders strewn near the town of Königsberg in Eastern Prussia (present-day Kaliningrad, Russia).
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Jain, S. (2020). Chitinozoa. In: Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology. Springer Geology. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3962-8_1
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