Burgess Shale fossils illustrate the origin of the mandibulate body plan

Cédric Aria () and Jean-Bernard Caron ()
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Cédric Aria: University of Toronto
Jean-Bernard Caron: University of Toronto

Nature, 2017, vol. 545, issue 7652, 89-92

Abstract: Tokummia katalepsis from the Burgess Shale had a pair of mandibles and maxilliped claws, showing that large bivalved arthropods from the Cambrian period are forerunners of myriapods and pancrustaceans, thereby providing a basis for the origin of the hyperdiverse mandibulate body plan.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/nature22080

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