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SUBMITTER: Schoenemann B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8484558 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schoenemann B B Clarkson E N K ENK Bartels C C Südkamp W W Rössner G E GE Ryck U U
Scientific reports 20210930 1
Trilobites, extinct arthropods that dominated the faunas of the Palaeozoic, since their appearance c 523 million years ago, were equipped with elaborate compound eyes. While most of them possessed apposition compound eyes (in trilobites called holochroal eyes), comparable to the compound eyes of many diurnal crustaceans and insects living today, trilobites of the suborder Phacopina developed atypical large eyes with wide lenses and wide interspaces in between (schizochroal eyes). Here, we show t ...[more]