Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte Fossils Reveal Anomalocaridid Brain Size

[Oxytropidoceras]

Brain of world's first known predators discovered

University of Arizona, Science Daily, July 16, 2014

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140716131628.htm

Fossils show strange sea creature's half-billion-year-

old brain by WillL Dunham, Reuters, July 16, 2014

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/16/us-science-brain-idUSKBN0FL2J620140716

Giant ancient prawn had tiny brain, new fossil shows

(520 million year-old fossil reveals early predator

had a brain simpler than that of a velvet worm)

The Guardian, by Ian Sample, July 16, 2104

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/16/fossil-discovery-giant-shrimp-predator-tiny-brain

The paper is:

Cong, P., X. Ma, X. Hou, G. D. Edgecombe, and

N. J. Strausfeld, 2014, Brain structure resolves the

segmental affinity of anomalocaridid appendages.

Nature. Published online 16 July 2014, DOI: 10.1038/nature13486

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13486.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited July 17, 2014 by Oxytropidoceras