Modern optics in exceptionally preserved eyes of Early Cambrian arthropods from Australia

Nature

Volumn 474, Issue 7353, 2011, Pages 631-634

  Lee, Michael S Y ^a,b   Jago, James B ^a,c   García Bellido, Diego C ^d   Edgecombe, Gregory D ^e   Gehling, James G ^a   Paterson, John R ^f  

^a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas   (Spain)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANATOMY; BIOMINERALIZATION; CAMBRIAN; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EYE; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; PRESERVATION; SHALE; TRILOBITE;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAMBRIAN; EMU BAY SHALE; EVOLUTION; EYE; FOSSIL; LENS; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; EYE; FOSSILS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRALIA; CHENGJIANG; CHINA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; YUNNAN;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 79959835874     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10097     Document Type: Article

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