• DOI:10.1038/nature06724
Corpus ID: 4373816

Sophisticated particle-feeding in a large Early Cambrian crustacean

@article{Harvey2008SophisticatedPI,
  title={Sophisticated particle-feeding in a large Early Cambrian crustacean},
  author={Thomas H P Harvey and N. Butterfield},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2008},
  volume={452},
  pages={868-871}
}

• Thomas H P Harvey, N. Butterfield
• Published 2008
• Biology, Medicine
• Nature

Most Cambrian arthropods employed simple feeding mechanisms requiring only low degrees of appendage differentiation. In contrast, post-Cambrian crustaceans exhibit a wide diversity of feeding specializations and possess a vast ecological repertoire. Crustaceans are evident in the Cambrian fossil record, but have hitherto been known exclusively from small individuals with limited appendage differentiation. Here we describe a sophisticated feeding apparatus from an Early Cambrian arthropod that… Expand

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