PaleontologybioRxiv
Before trilobite legs: Pygmaclypeatus daziensis reconsidered and the ancestral appendicular organization of Cambrian artiopods
M. Schmidt, X. Hou, D. Zhai…·Y. Liu
This paper uses micro-CT to study the appendage structure of Pygmaclypeatus daziensis, revealing its heteronomy and suggesting an ancestral exopodite morphology in Artiopoda.
DOI 10.1098/rstb.2021.0030