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ArticleeLife2016

Preservation of three-dimensional anatomy in phosphatized fossil arthropods enriches evolutionary inference.

Achim H Schwermann, Tomy Dos Santos Rolo, Michael S Caterino, Günter Bechly, Heiko Schmied, Tilo Baumbach, Thomas van de Kamp

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Article in eLife, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Achim H SchwermannSteinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Tomy Dos Santos RoloANKA/Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany.
Michael S CaterinoDepartment of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, United States.
Günter BechlyState Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
Heiko SchmiedInstitute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Tilo BaumbachANKA/Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany.
Thomas van de KampANKA/Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7390-1318
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology · DEUniversity of Bonn · DEClemson University · USStaatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

External and internal morphological characters of extant and fossil organisms are crucial to establishing their systematic position, ecological role and evolutionary trends. The lack of internal characters and soft-tissue preservation in many arthropod fossils, however, impedes comprehensive phylogenetic analyses and species descriptions according to taxonomic standards for Recent organisms. We found well-preserved three-dimensional anatomy in mineralized arthropods from Paleogene fissure fillings and demonstrate the value of these fossils by utilizing digitally reconstructed anatomical structure of a hister beetle. The new anatomical data facilitate a refinement of the species diagnosis and allowed us to reject a previous hypothesis of close phylogenetic relationship to an extant congeneric species. Our findings suggest that mineralized fossils, even those of macroscopically poor preservation, constitute a rich but yet largely unexploited source of anatomical data for fossil arthropods.

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Biological EvolutionFossilsAnimalsArthropodsClassificationImaging, Three-Dimensionalevolutionary biologyfissure fillingsgenomicsHisteridaeinternal charactersonthophilus spp. (coleopera: histeridae)PaleogeneX-ray imaging

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PMID26854367
PMCPMC4758943
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