Soft‐bodied fossils are not simply rotten carcasses–toward a holistic understanding of exceptional fossil preservation: exceptional fossil preservation is complex and …

LA Parry, F Smithwick, KK Nordén, ET Saitta… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Exceptionally preserved fossils are the product of complex interplays of biological and
geological processes including burial, autolysis and microbial decay, authigenic …

The origin and early evolution of arthropods

C Aria - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rise of arthropods is a decisive event in the history of life. Likely the first animals to have
established themselves on land and in the air, arthropods have pervaded nearly all …

[图书][B] The ancient origins of consciousness: How the brain created experience

TE Feinberg, J Mallatt - 2016 - books.google.com
How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly
assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious …

Rapid volcanic ash entombment reveals the 3D anatomy of Cambrian trilobites

A El Albani, A Mazurier, GD Edgecombe, A Azizi… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Knowledge of Cambrian animal anatomy is limited by preservational processes that result in
compaction, size bias, and incompleteness. We documented pristine three-dimensional (3D) …

A three-eyed radiodont with fossilized neuroanatomy informs the origin of the arthropod head and segmentation

J Moysiuk, JB Caron - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
In addition to being among the most iconic and bizarre-looking Cambrian animals,
radiodonts are a group that offers key insight into the acquisition of the arthropod body plan …

Early fossil record of Euarthropoda and the Cambrian Explosion

AC Daley, JB Antcliffe, HB Drage… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Euarthropoda is one of the best-preserved fossil animal groups and has been the most
diverse animal phylum for over 500 million years. Fossil Konservat-Lagerstätten, such as …

An early Cambrian euarthropod with radiodont-like raptorial appendages

H Zeng, F Zhao, K Niu, M Zhu, D Huang - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Resolving the early evolution of euarthropods is one of the most challenging problems in
metazoan evolution,. Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Cambrian period have …

The significance of Anomalocaris and other Radiodonta for understanding paleoecology and evolution during the Cambrian explosion

GJM Potin, AC Daley - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
One of the most widespread and diverse animal groups of the Cambrian Explosion is a
clade of stem lineage arthropods known as Radiodonta, which lived exclusively in the early …

Origin and evolution of the panarthropod head–a palaeobiological and developmental perspective

J Ortega-Hernández, R Janssen, GE Budd - Arthropod structure & …, 2017 - Elsevier
The panarthropod head represents a complex body region that has evolved through the
integration and functional specialization of the anterior appendage-bearing segments …

Burgess Shale fossils illustrate the origin of the mandibulate body plan

C Aria, JB Caron - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Retracing the evolutionary history of arthropods has been one of the greatest challenges in
biology. During the past decade, phylogenetic analyses of morphological and molecular …