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As an agent of rapid transportation, jet propulsion has no significant competitor. Although technologically it is but a latecomer, biologically jet propulsion is of great antiquity, probably having originated in the late Precambrian («700 Ma) with the advent of medusoid cnidarians and animals of similar grade.
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Chamberlain, J.A. (2010). Locomotion of Nautilus. In: Saunders, W.B., Landman, N.H. (eds) Nautilus. Topics in Geobiology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3299-7_32
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