Biomineralized skeletons are widespread in animals, and their origins can be traced to the
latest Ediacaran or early Cambrian fossil record, in virtually all animal groups. The origin of …

Molluscs are extremely diverse invertebrate animals with a rich fossil record, highly
divergent life cycles, and considerable economical and ecological importance. Key …

Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in
virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …

Molluscs (snails, octopuses, clams and their relatives) have a great disparity of body plans
and, among the animals, only arthropods surpass them in species number. This diversity …

Data on the first appearances of major animal groups with mineralized skeletons on the
Siberian Platform and worldwide are revised and summarized herein with references to an …

Deuterostomes are the major division of animal life which includes sea stars, acorn worms,
and humans, among a wide variety of ecologically and morphologically disparate taxa …

Assemblages of mineralized skeletal fossils are described from limestone rocks of the lower
Cambrian Nemakit-Daldyn, Medvezhya, Kugda-Yuryakh, Manykay, and lower Emyaksin …

Exceptionally preserved fossils provide crucial insights into extinct body plans and
organismal evolution. Molluscs, one of the most disparate animal phyla, radiated rapidly …

The dynamics of how metazoan phyla appeared and evolved–known as the Cambrian
Explosion–remains elusive. We present a quantitative analysis of the temporal distribution …

Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …