Palaeontology: The Cause of Jaws and Claws

Curr Biol. 2017 Aug 21;27(16):R807-R810. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.016.

Author

Gregory D Edgecombe¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. Electronic address: g.edgecombe@nhm.ac.uk.

PMID: 28829968
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.016

Abstract

Cambrian fossils underpin a new hypothesis for body plan evolution in the deepest branching lineages of jawed arthropods, the mandibulates.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Arthropods*
Fossils
Hoof and Claw*
Paleontology
Phylogeny