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Complexity and diversity of eyes in early Cambrian ecosystems.
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- Probability-based preservational variations within the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota (China).PeerJ · 2022Article
- Disparate compound eyes of Cambrian radiodonts reveal their developmental growth mode and diverse visual ecology.Science advances · 2020Article
- Isotopic evidence for temperate oceans during the Cambrian Explosion.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Structure and function of a compound eye, more than half a billion years old.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Diversity partitioning during the Cambrian radiation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
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Abstract
Here we report exceptionally preserved non-biomineralized compound eyes of a non-trilobite arthropod Cindarella eucalla from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, China. The specimen represents the oldest microanatomical evidence confirming the occurrence of highly developed vision in the early Cambrian, over 2,000 ommatidia in each eye. Moreover, a quantitative analysis of the distribution of eyes related to life habit, feeding types, and phyla respectively, from the Chengjiang biota indicates that specimens with eyes mostly belong to the arthropods, and they usually were actively mobile epifaunal and nektonic forms as hunters or scavengers. Arthropods took the lead in evolution of 'good vision' and domination in Cambrian communities, which supports the hypothesis that the origin and evolution of 'good vision' was a key trait that promoted preferential diversification and formed the foundation of modern benthic ecosystems in the early Cambrian ocean.
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