Insights into the 400 million-year-old eyes of giant sea scorpions (Eurypterida) suggest the structure of Palaeozoic compound eyes

A Critical Appraisal of the Placement of Xiphosura (Chelicerata) with Account of Known Sources of Phylogenetic Error

(2019) Jesús A Ballesteros et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Exploring the evolution and terrestrialization of scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) with rocks and clocks

(2019) Richard J. Howard et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Stylonurine eurypterids from the Strud locality (Upper Devonian, Belgium): new insights into the ecology of freshwater sea scorpions

(2019) James C Lamsdell et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Trilobite compound eyes with crystalline cones and rhabdoms show mandibulate affinities

(2019) Gerhard Scholtz et al.   Nature Communications

Molecular palaeontology illuminates the evolution of ecdysozoan vision

(2018) James F. Fleming et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Exocuticular hyaline layer of sea scorpions and horseshoe crabs suggests cuticular fluorescence is plesiomorphic in chelicerates

(2017) M. Rubin et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Structure and function of a compound eye, more than half a billion years old

(2017) Brigitte Schoenemann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Arthropod eyes: The early Cambrian fossil record and divergent evolution of visual systems

(2016) Nicholas J. Strausfeld et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

From success to persistence: Identifying an evolutionary regime shift in the diverse Paleozoic aquatic arthropod group Eurypterida, driven by the Devonian biotic crisis

(2016) James C. Lamsdell et al.   EVOLUTION

Simple Eyes, Extraocular Photoreceptors and Opsins in the American Horseshoe Crab

(2016) Barbara-Anne Battelle   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Telltale eyes: the lateral visual systems of Rhenish Lower Devonian eurypterids (Arthropoda, Chelicerata) and their palaeobiological implications

(2016) Markus Poschmann et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Exceptional preservation of eye structure in arthropod visual predators from the Middle Jurassic

(2016) Jean Vannier et al.   Nature Communications

All the better to see you with: eyes and claws reveal the evolution of divergent ecological roles in giant pterygotid eurypterids

(2015) Victoria E. McCoy et al.   Biology Letters

A new mid-Silurian aquatic scorpion--one step closer to land?

(2015) J. Waddington et al.   Biology Letters

The oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa

(2015) James C. Lamsdell et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Tachypleus syriacus (Woodward)—a sexually dimorphic Cretaceous crown limulid reveals underestimated horseshoe crab divergence times

(2015) James C. Lamsdell et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Horseshoe crab phylogeny and independent colonizations of fresh water: ecological invasion as a driver for morphological innovation

(2015) James C. Lamsdell   PALAEONTOLOGY

What big eyes you have: the ecological role of giant pterygotid eurypterids

(2014) R. P. Anderson et al.   Biology Letters

The Horseshoe Crab of the Genus Limulus: Living Fossil or Stabilomorph?

(2014) Adrian Kin et al.   PLoS One

Three-dimensional reconstruction and the phylogeny of extinct chelicerate orders

(2014) Russell J. Garwood et al.   PeerJ

Discovery of some 400 million year-old sensory structures in the compound eyes of trilobites

(2013) Brigitte Schoenemann et al.   Scientific Reports

Revised systematics of Palaeozoic ‘horseshoe crabs’ and the myth of monophyletic Xiphosura

(2012) James C. Lamsdell   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes

(2011) John R. Paterson et al.   NATURE

Sperm carriers in Silurian sea scorpions

(2011) Carsten Kamenz et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Untersuchungen zur Morphologie, Taxonomie und Phylogenie der Chelicerata1 I. Morphologische Untersuchungen

(2010) P. Weygoldt et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type

(2010) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

Cope's Rule and Romer's theory: patterns of diversity and gigantism in eurypterids and Palaeozoic vertebrates

(2009) J. C. Lamsdell et al.   Biology Letters

Ecdysis in sea scorpions (Chelicerata: Eurypterida)

(2008) O. Erik Tetlie et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

REINTERPRETATION OF THE SILURIAN SCORPION PROSCORPIUS OSBORNI (WHITFIELD): INTEGRATING DATA FROM PALAEOZOIC AND RECENT SCORPIONS

(2008) JASON A. DUNLOP et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Giant claw reveals the largest ever arthropod

(2007) S. J Braddy et al.   Biology Letters