Complex hierarchical microstructures of Cambrian mollusk Pelagiella: insight into early biomineralization and evolution.

The origin of calcite in aragonitic shells is more difficult to decipher, but there is a clear trend marked by the transition from widespread, aragonitic mollusk shells during the early Cambrian, to evolution of calcitic shells that became common in the mid-Cambrian 33 .

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