Proclivity of nervous system preservation in Cambrian Burgess Shale-type deposits

The Qingjiang biota—A Burgess Shale–type fossil Lagerstätte from the early Cambrian of South China

(2019) Dongjing Fu et al.   SCIENCE

Canadia spinosa and the early evolution of the annelid nervous system

(2019) Luke Parry et al.   Science Advances

Gut glands illuminate trunk segmentation in Cambrian fuxianhuiids

(2018) Javier Ortega-Hernández et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A mineralogical signature for Burgess Shale–type fossilization

(2018) Ross P. Anderson et al.   GEOLOGY

The Weeks Formation Konservat-Lagerstätte and the evolutionary transition of Cambrian marine life

(2018) Rudy Lerosey-Aubril et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Experimental analysis of soft-tissue fossilization: opening the black box

(2018) Mark A. Purnell et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Early fossil record of Euarthropoda and the Cambrian Explosion

(2018) Allison C. Daley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbial decay analysis challenges interpretation of putative organ systems in Cambrian fuxianhuiids

(2018) Jianni Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Brain and eyes of Kerygmachela reveal protocerebral ancestry of the panarthropod head

(2018) Tae-Yoon S. Park et al.   Nature Communications

Waptia fieldensis Walcott, a mandibulate arthropod from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale

(2018) Jean Vannier et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Three-Dimensionally Preserved Appendages in an Early Cambrian Stem-Group Pancrustacean

(2018) Dayou Zhai et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Hypothesis for the Composition of the Tardigrade Brain and its Implications for Panarthropod Brain Evolution

(2017) Frank W. Smith et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Central nervous system and muscular bundles preserved in a 240 million year old giant bristletail (Archaeognatha: Machilidae)

(2017) Matteo Montagna et al.   Scientific Reports

Waptia revisited: Intimations of behaviors

(2016) Nicholas J. Strausfeld   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

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

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

Experimental evidence that clay inhibits bacterial decomposers: Implications for preservation of organic fossils

(2016) Sean McMahon et al.   GEOLOGY

Onychophoran-like myoanatomy of the Cambrian gilled lobopodianPambdelurion whittingtoni

(2016) Fletcher J. Young 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

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

(2016) Robert S. Sansom   Scientific Reports

The morphology and affinities of Skania fragilis (Arthropoda) from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale

(2015) D.A. Legg   BULLETIN OF GEOSCIENCES

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

The ‘great appendage’ arthropod Tanglangia : Biogeographic connections between early Cambrian biotas of Australia and South China

(2015) John R. Paterson et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

New records of Burgess Shale-type taxa from the middle Cambrian of Utah

(2015) Simon Conway Morris et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by a giant filter-feeder with paired flaps

(2015) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

A large new leanchoiliid from the Burgess Shale and the influence of inapplicable states on stem arthropod phylogeny

(2015) Cédric Aria et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Unlocking the early fossil record of the arthropod central nervous system

(2015) G. D. Edgecombe et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Experimental taphonomy of Artemia reveals the role of endogenous microbes in mediating decay and fossilization

(2015) A. D. Butler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cephalic and Limb Anatomy of a New Isoxyid from the Burgess Shale and the Role of “Stem Bivalved Arthropods” in the Disparity of the Frontalmost Appendage

(2015) Cédric Aria et al.   PLoS One

Making sense of ‘lower’ and ‘upper’ stem-group Euarthropoda, with comments on the strict use of the name Arthropoda von Siebold, 1848

(2014) Javier Ortega-Hernández   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

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

Brain structure resolves the segmental affinity of anomalocaridid appendages

(2014) Peiyun Cong et al.   NATURE

Origins and early evolution of arthropods

(2014) Gregory D. Edgecombe et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

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

(2014) L. A. WILSON et al.   PALAIOS

An exceptionally preserved arthropod cardiovascular system from the early Cambrian

(2014) Xiaoya Ma et al.   Nature Communications

Sophisticated digestive systems in early arthropods

(2014) Jean Vannier et al.   Nature Communications

A new phyllopod bed-like assemblage from the Burgess Shale of the Canadian Rockies

(2014) Jean-Bernard Caron et al.   Nature Communications

Specialized appendages in fuxianhuiids and the head organization of early euarthropods

(2013) Jie Yang et al.   NATURE

Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod

(2013) Gengo Tanaka et al.   NATURE

Morphology and function in the Cambrian Burgess Shale megacheiran arthropod Leanchoilia superlata and the application of a descriptive matrix

(2012) Joachim T Haug et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod

(2012) Xiaoya Ma et al.   NATURE

Controls on Gut Phosphatisation: The Trilobites from the Weeks Formation Lagerstätte (Cambrian; Utah)

(2012) Rudy Lerosey-Aubril et al.   PLoS One

A New Leanchoiliid Megacheiran Arthropod from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, South Australia

(2011) Gregory D. Edgecombe et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

The lobes and lobopods of Opabinia regalis from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale

(2011) GRAHAM E. BUDD et al.   LETHAIA

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

(2011) John R. Paterson et al.   NATURE

Functional morphology, ontogeny and evolution of mantis shrimp-like predators in the Cambrian

(2011) JOACHIM T. HAUG et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Middle Cambrian arthropods from Utah

(2008) Derek E. G. Briggs et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY