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

Fossilised arthropod compound eyes have frequently been described. Among the oldest known are those from the lower Cambrian of the Chengjiang Lagerstätte (China, c 525 Ma). All these compound eyes, though often excellently preserved, however, represent just the outer shells, because soft tissues, or...

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Main Authors: Schoenemann, Brigitte, Clarkson, Euan N. K.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3596982/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23492459
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep01429
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