Exceptional preservation of eye structure in arthropod visual predators from the Middle Jurassic
oleh: Jean Vannier, Brigitte Schoenemann, Thomas Gillot, Sylvain Charbonnier, Euan Clarkson
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2016-01-01 |
Deskripsi
Understanding how ancient animals perceived their environment is difficult due to a lack of fossilized eye structures. Here, the authors reconstruct the compound eye of a 160-million-year old thylacocephalan arthropod, Dollocaris, finding evidence of hunting adaptations.