Arthropod origins: integrating paleontological and molecular evidence

GD Edgecombe - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Phylogenomics underpins a stable and mostly well-resolved hypothesis for the
interrelationships of extant arthropods. Exceptionally preserved fossils are integrated into …

Birth and early evolution of metazoans

D Shu, Y Isozaki, X Zhang, J Han, S Maruyama - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The reconstruction of the phylogenetic tree of animals (TOA) has long been one of the
central interests in biological and paleobiological sciences. We review the latest results of …

Chronology of early Cambrian biomineralization

A Kouchinsky, S Bengtson, B Runnegar… - Geological …, 2012 - cambridge.org
Data on the first appearances of major animal groups with mineralized skeletons on the
Siberian Platform and worldwide are revised and summarized herein with references to an …

The Ediacaran origin of Ecdysozoa: integrating fossil and phylogenomic data

RJ Howard, M Giacomelli… - Journal of the …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
Ecdysozoans (Phyla Arthropoda, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Nematoda, Nematomorpha,
Onychophora, Priapulida, Tardigrada) are invertebrates bearing a tough, periodically …

The oldest known priapulid‐like scalidophoran animal and its implications for the early evolution of cycloneuralians and ecdysozoans

Y Liu, S Xiao, T Shao, J Broce… - Evolution & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Morphological phylogenetic analyses suggest that scalidophorans (priapulids, loriciferans,
and kinorhynchs) and nematoids (nematodes and nematomorphs) form the ecdysozoan …

Armored kinorhynch-like scalidophoran animals from the early Cambrian

H Zhang, S Xiao, Y Liu, X Yuan, B Wan, AD Muscente… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Morphology-based phylogenetic analyses support the monophyly of the Scalidophora
(Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Priapulida) and Nematoida (Nematoda, Nematomorpha), together …

Early–middle Cambrian stratigraphy and faunas from northern Siberia

A Kouchinsky, R Alexander, S Bengtson… - Acta …, 2022 - research.ed.ac.uk
Hadimopanella knappologica, Archaeopetasus typicus, and first descriptions of
Hadimopanella foveata Kouchinsky sp. nov. and Archaeopetasus pachybasalis Kouchinsky …

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

MA Wills, S Gerber, M Ruta… - Journal of evolutionary …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Priapulids and their extinct relatives, the archaeopriapulids and palaeoscolecids, are
vermiform, carnivorous ecdysozoans with an armoured, extensible proboscis. These worms …

Small carbonaceous fossils (SCF s) from the T erreneuvian (lower C ambrian) of B altica

BJ Slater, THP Harvey, NJ Butterfield - Palaeontology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We describe a new assemblage of small carbonaceous fossils (SCF s) from diagenetically
minimally altered clays and siltstones of Terreneuvian age from the Lontova and Voosi …

Burgess Shale-type microfossils from the middle Cambrian Kaili Formation, Guizhou Province, China

THP Harvey, J Ortega-Hernández, JP Lin… - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2011 - BioOne
Diverse carbonaceous microfossils, including exceptionally preserved remains of non-
biomineralizing metazoans, are reported from a basal middle Cambrian interval of the Kaili …