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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Early fossil record of Euarthropoda and the Cambrian Explosion.

Allison C Daley, Jonathan B Antcliffe, Harriet B Drage, Stephen Pates

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Allison C DaleyInstitute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, Géopolis, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; allison.daley@unil.ch.ORCID 0000-0001-5369-5879
Jonathan B AntcliffeInstitute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, Géopolis, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Harriet B DrageInstitute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, Géopolis, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0759-5970
Stephen PatesInstitute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, Géopolis, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Euarthropoda is one of the best-preserved fossil animal groups and has been the most diverse animal phylum for over 500 million years. Fossil Konservat-Lagerstätten, such as Burgess Shale-type deposits (BSTs), show the evolution of the euarthropod stem lineage during the Cambrian from 518 million years ago (Ma). The stem lineage includes nonbiomineralized groups, such as Radiodonta (e.g.,

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Biological EvolutionFossilsAnimalsArthropodsBiotaPhylogenyArthropodaCambrian explosionevolutionpaleontologyPaleozoic

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PMID29784780
PMCPMC6003487

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