Fossil age data and molecular sequences are increasingly combined to establish a
timescale for the Tree of Life. Arthropods, as the most species-rich and morphologically …

The discovery of the Fezouata biota in the latest Tremadocian of southeastern Morocco has
significantly changed our understanding of the early Phanerozoic radiation. The shelly fossil …

Understanding animal terrestrialization, the process through which animals colonized the
land, is crucial to clarify extant biodiversity and biological adaptation. Arthropoda (insects …

Exceptionally preserved fossils are the product of complex interplays of biological and
geological processes including burial, autolysis and microbial decay, authigenic …

Twenty years after its proposal, the monophyly of molting protostomes—Ecdysozoa—is a
well-corroborated hypothesis, but the interrelationships of its major subclades are more …

Phylogenomics underpins a stable and mostly well-resolved hypothesis for the
interrelationships of extant arthropods. Exceptionally preserved fossils are integrated into …

Accumulated records of organic microfossils span billions of years of Earth history. The
majority of this record consists of prokaryotes plus eukaryotes of a protistan grade, yet this …

The ever‐increasing number of studies that address the origin and evolution of
Euarthropoda–whose extant representatives include chelicerates, myriapods, crustaceans …

Summary The superphylum Panarthropoda (Arthropoda, Onychophora, and Tardigrada)
exhibits a remarkable diversity of segment morphologies, enabling these animals to occupy …

The rise of arthropods is a decisive event in the history of life. Likely the first animals to have
established themselves on land and in the air, arthropods have pervaded nearly all …