Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Early Cambrian fuxianhuiids from China reveal origin of the gnathobasic protopodite in euarthropods

  • Jie Yang,
  • Javier Ortega-Hernández,
  • David A. Legg,
  • Tian Lan,
  • Jin-bo Hou,
  • Xi-guang Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02754-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The fuxianhuiids were a group of primitive true arthropods living in the Cambrian period. Here, Yang and colleagues describe a new species of fuxianhuiid, Alacaris mirabilis, from exceptionally-preserved specimens that illustrate the early evolution of specialized arthropod mouthparts.