Preservation and phylogeny of Cambrian ecdysozoans tested by experimental decay of Priapulus

The impact of taphonomic data on phylogenetic resolution: Helenodora inopinata (Carboniferous, Mazon Creek Lagerstätte) and the onychophoran stem lineage

(2016) Duncan J. E. Murdock et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The ‘Tully monster’ is a vertebrate

(2016) Victoria E. McCoy et al.   NATURE

Unveiling biases in soft-tissue phosphatization: extensive preservation of musculature in the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) polychaeteRollinschaeta myoplena(Annelida: Amphinomidae)

(2016) Paul Wilson et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Fuxianhuiid ventral nerve cord and early nervous system evolution in Panarthropoda

(2016) Jie Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Preservational Pathways of Corresponding Brains of a Cambrian Euarthropod

(2015) Xiaoya Ma et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Homology of Head Sclerites in Burgess Shale Euarthropods

(2015) Javier Ortega-Hernández   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Using experimental decay of modern forms to reconstruct the early evolution and morphology of fossil enteropneusts

(2015) Karma Nanglu et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications

(2014) Casey W. Dunn et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Decay of velvet worms (Onychophora), and bias in the fossil record of lobopodians

(2014) Duncan JE Murdock et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A New Exceptionally Preserved Cambrian Priapulid from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte

(2014) Xiaoya Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

A transcriptome approach to ecdysozoan phylogeny

(2014) Janus Borner et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Brain structure resolves the segmental affinity of anomalocaridid appendages

(2014) Peiyun Cong et al.   NATURE

A primitive fish from the Cambrian of North America

(2014) Simon Conway Morris et al.   NATURE

SEDIMENT EFFECTS ON THE PRESERVATION OF BURGESS SHALE-TYPE COMPRESSION FOSSILS

(2014) L. A. WILSON et al.   PALAIOS

Bias and Sensitivity in the Placement of Fossil Taxa Resulting from Interpretations of Missing Data

(2014) Robert S. Sansom   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

An exceptionally preserved arthropod cardiovascular system from the early Cambrian

(2014) Xiaoya Ma et al.   Nature Communications

Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod

(2013) Gengo Tanaka et al.   NATURE

Atlas of vertebrate decay: a visual and taphonomic guide to fossil interpretation

(2013) Robert S. Sansom et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Fossilization causes organisms to appear erroneously primitive by distorting evolutionary trees

(2013) Robert S. Sansom et al.   Scientific Reports

Pikaia gracilens Walcott, a stem-group chordate from the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia

(2012) Simon Conway Morris et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The disparity of priapulid, archaeopriapulid and palaeoscolecid worms in the light of new data

(2012) M. A. Wills et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod

(2012) Xiaoya Ma et al.   NATURE

Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation

(2012) R. R. Gaines et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MicroRNAs and phylogenomics resolve the relationships of Tardigrada and suggest that velvet worms are the sister group of Arthropoda

(2011) L. I. Campbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation

(2010) Robert S. Sansom et al.   NATURE

Decay of vertebrate characters in hagfish and lamprey (Cyclostomata) and the implications for the vertebrate fossil record

(2010) R. S. Sansom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Distinguishing heat from light in debate over controversial fossils

(2009) Philip C. J. Donoghue et al.   BIOESSAYS

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF TAPHOFACIES AND PALEOCOMMUNITIES IN THE EARLY CAMBRIAN CHENGJIANG LAGERSTATTE

(2009) F. ZHAO et al.   PALAIOS

Weighting against homoplasy improves phylogenetic analysis of morphological data sets

(2008) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis

(2008) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

Cambrian Burgess Shale–type deposits share a common mode of fossilization

(2008) Robert R. Gaines et al.   GEOLOGY

A redescription of a rare chordate, Metaspriggina Walcotti Simonetta and Insom, from the Burgess Shale (Middle Cambrian), British Columbia, Canada

(2008) Simon Conway Morris   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

The evolution of the Ecdysozoa

(2008) M. J Telford et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Community palaeoecology of the early Cambrian Maotianshan Shale biota: Ecological dominance of priapulid worms

(2007) Stephen Q. Dornbos et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale

(2007) Jean-Bernard Caron et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY