Radiodont frontal appendages from the Fezouata Biota (Morocco) reveal high diversity and ecological adaptations to suspension-feeding during the Early Ordovician

The significance of Anomalocaris and other Radiodonta for understanding paleoecology and evolution during the Cambrian explosion

(2023) Gaëtan J.-M. Potin et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

Contrasting Early Ordovician assembly patterns highlight the complex initial stages of the Ordovician Radiation

(2022) Farid Saleh et al.   Scientific Reports

A three-eyed radiodont with fossilized neuroanatomy informs the origin of the arthropod head and segmentation

(2022) Joseph Moysiuk et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Probability-based preservational variations within the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota (China)

(2022) Farid Saleh et al.   PeerJ

Addressing the Chengjiang conundrum: A palaeoecological view on the rarity of hurdiid radiodonts in this most diverse early Cambrian Lagerstätte

(2022) Yu Wu et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

The diverse radiodont fauna from the Marjum Formation of Utah, USA (Cambrian: Drumian)

(2021) Stephen Pates et al.   PeerJ

Exceptional multifunctionality in the feeding apparatus of a mid-Cambrian radiodont

(2021) Joseph Moysiuk et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

A potential cephalopod from the early Cambrian of eastern Newfoundland, Canada

(2021) Anne Hildenbrand et al.   Communications Biology

A novel tool to untangle the ecology and fossil preservation knot in exceptionally preserved biotas

(2021) Farid Saleh et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Three-dimensional modelling, disparity and ecology of the first Cambrian apex predators

(2021) Giacinto De Vivo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Furongian (Jiangshanian) occurrences of radiodonts in Poland and South China and the fossil record of the Hurdiidae

(2021) Xuejian Zhu et al.   PeerJ

A giant nektobenthic radiodont from the Burgess Shale and the significance of hurdiid carapace diversity

(2021) J.-B. Caron et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Taphonomic pathway of exceptionally preserved fossils in the Lower Ordovician of Morocco

(2020) Farid Saleh et al.   GEOBIOS

Occurrence of the eudemersal radiodont Cambroraster in the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte and the diversity of hurdiid ecomorphotypes

(2020) Yu Liu et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Large trilobites in a stress-free Early Ordovician environment

(2020) Farid Saleh et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Occurrence of the hurdiid radiodont Cambroraster in the middle Cambrian (Wuliuan) Mantou Formation of North China

(2020) Zhixin Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

A new nektaspid euarthropod from the Lower Ordovician strata of Morocco

(2020) Francesc Pérez-Peris et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

A miniature Ordovician hurdiid from Wales demonstrates the adaptability of Radiodonta

(2020) Stephen Pates et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Disparate compound eyes of Cambrian radiodonts reveal their developmental growth mode and diverse visual ecology

(2020) John R. Paterson et al.   Science Advances

Insights into soft-part preservation from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota

(2020) Farid Saleh et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Orbital control on exceptional fossil preservation

(2019) Farid Saleh et al.   GEOLOGY

Trilobite evolutionary rates constrain the duration of the Cambrian explosion

(2019) John R. Paterson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A new hurdiid radiodont from the Burgess Shale evinces the exploitation of Cambrian infaunal food sources

(2019) J. Moysiuk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

First report of paired ventral endites in a hurdiid radiodont

(2019) Stephen Pates et al.   Zoological Letters

Prey fractionation in the Archaeocyatha and its implication for the ecology of the first animal reef systems

(2019) Jonathan B. Antcliffe et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Collective behaviour in 480-million-year-old trilobite arthropods from Morocco

(2019) Jean Vannier et al.   Scientific Reports

Taphonomic bias in exceptionally preserved biotas

(2019) Farid Saleh et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Palaeozoic colonization of the water column and the rise of global nekton

(2018) Christopher D. Whalen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Origin of raptorial feeding in juvenile euarthropods revealed by a Cambrian radiodontan

(2018) Jianni Liu et al.   National Science Review

The Kinzers Formation (Pennsylvania, USA): the most diverse assemblage of Cambrian Stage 4 radiodonts

(2018) STEPHEN PATES et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

New suspension-feeding radiodont suggests evolution of microplanktivory in Cambrian macronekton

(2018) Rudy Lerosey-Aubril et al.   Nature Communications

STORM-INDUCED COMMUNITY DYNAMICS IN THE FEZOUATA BIOTA (LOWER ORDOVICIAN, MOROCCO)

(2018) FARID SALEH et al.   PALAIOS

Morphology of diverse radiodontan head sclerites from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, south-west China

(2017) Han Zeng et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Age calibration of the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Lagerstätte, Morocco

(2017) Bertrand Lefebvre et al.   LETHAIA

Digestive and appendicular soft-parts, with behavioural implications, in a large Ordovician trilobite from the Fezouata Lagerstätte, Morocco

(2017) Juan C. Gutiérrez-Marco et al.   Scientific Reports

The Lower Ordovician Fezouata Konservat-Lagerstätte from Morocco: Age, environment and evolutionary perspectives

(2016) Emmanuel L.O. Martin et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

A genetic link between Konzentrat- and Konservat-Lagerstätten in the Fezouata Shale (Lower Ordovician, Morocco)

(2016) Romain Vaucher et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Palaeoscolecid worms from the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Lagerstätte, Morocco: Palaeoecological and palaeogeographical implications

(2016) Emmanuel L.O. Martin et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental controls on the trilobite associations from the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale of the central Anti-Atlas, Morocco

(2016) Emmanuel L.O. Martin et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The onset of the ‘Ordovician Plankton Revolution’ in the late Cambrian

(2016) Thomas Servais et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A wave-dominated, tide-modulated model for the Lower Ordovician of the Anti-Atlas, Morocco

(2016) Romain Vaucher et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

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

The fossil record and palaeoenvironmental significance of marine arthropod zooplankton

(2015) Vincent Perrier et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

A new aglaspidid euarthropod with a six-segmented trunk from the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Konservat-Lagerstätte, Morocco

(2015) JAVIER ORTEGA-HERNÁNDEZ et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

The Fezouata fossils of Morocco; an extraordinary record of marine life in the Early Ordovician

(2015) Peter Van Roy et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

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

(2015) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

A suspension-feeding anomalocarid from the Early Cambrian

(2014) Jakob Vinther et al.   NATURE

Angustidontid crustaceans from the Late Devonian of Strud (Namur Province, Belgium): insights into the origin of Decapoda

(2014) Pierre Gueriau et al.   NEUES JAHRBUCH FUR GEOLOGIE UND PALAONTOLOGIE-ABHANDLUNGEN

Morphology and systematics of the anomalocaridid arthropodHurdiafrom the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia and Utah

(2013) Allison C. Daley et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

New anatomical information onAnomalocarisfrom the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale of South Australia and a reassessment of its inferred predatory habits

(2013) Allison C. Daley et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Palaeogeography and palaeoecology of early Floian (Early Ordovician) cephalopods from the Upper Fezouata Formation, Anti-Atlas, Morocco

(2012) Björn Kröger et al.   FOSSIL RECORD

PRESERVATION OF GIANT ANOMALOCARIDIDS IN SILICA-CHLORITE CONCRETIONS FROM THE EARLY ORDOVICIAN OF MOROCCO

(2012) R. R. GAINES et al.   PALAIOS

A giant Ordovician anomalocaridid

(2011) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

Pulse of atmospheric oxygen during the late Cambrian

(2011) M. R. Saltzman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A new Burgess Shale–type assemblage from the “thin” Stephen Formation of the southern Canadian Rockies

(2010) Jean-Bernard Caron et al.   GEOLOGY

A possible anomalocaridid from the Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland

(2010) Allison C. Daley et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type

(2010) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE): The palaeoecological dimension

(2010) Thomas Servais et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

New anomalocaridid appendages from the Burgess Shale, Canada

(2010) ALLISON C. DALEY et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The Devonian nekton revolution

(2009) CHRISTIAN KLUG et al.   LETHAIA

Pulsed cephalopod diversification during the Ordovician

(2009) Björn Kröger et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Origin and Initial Rise of Pelagic Cephalopods in the Ordovician

(2009) Björn Kröger et al.   PLoS One

A Great-Appendage Arthropod with a Radial Mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsruck Slate, Germany

(2009) G. Kuhl et al.   SCIENCE