The ever‐increasing number of studies that address the origin and evolution of
Euarthropoda–whose extant representatives include chelicerates, myriapods, crustaceans …

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 …

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Palaeozoic era provide crucial insights into
arthropod evolution, with recent discoveries bringing phylogeny and character homology …

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 …

Phylogenomics reconstructs an arthropod tree in which a monophyletic A rthropoda splits
into P ycnogonida+ E uchelicerata and M yriapoda+ P ancrustacea. The same chelicerate …

ABSTRACT The Cambrian Explosion is arguably the most extreme example of a biological
radiation preserved in the fossil record, and studies of Cambrian Lagerstätten have …

A bstract Recent description of the oral cone of Anomalocaris canadensis from the Burgess
Shale (Cambrian Series 3, Stage 5) highlighted significant differences from published …

Introduction The Early Ordovician Fezouata Shale Formation (485–475Ma, Morocco) is a
critical source of evidence for the unfolding Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event …

Abstract The Fezouata Biota (Morocco) is a unique Early Ordovician fossil assemblage. The
discovery of this biota revolutionized our understanding of Earth's early animal …

Ecdysis, the process of moulting an exoskeleton, is one of the key characters uniting
arthropods, nematodes and a number of smaller phyla into Ecdysozoa. The arthropod fossil …