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The Arthropod Fossil Record

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Arthropod Biology and Evolution

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With respect to animal life, we inhabit a planet dominated by arthropods. The Recent is not geologically anomalous in this respect—arthropods have been megadiverse for some 520 million years, since the early Cambrian. The trace fossil and body fossil records of Arthropoda extend to the main burst of the Cambrian explosion, alongside the earliest fossils of most other animal phyla.

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Acknowledgments

For providing photographs used to illustrate this chapter, we thank Chen Ai-lin (Chengjiang Fauna National Geological Park), Allison Daley (The Natural History Museum), Jason Dunlop (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin), Diego García-Bellido (CSIC, Universidad Complutense Madrid), Tom Harvey and Nick Butterfield (University of Cambridge), Xiaoya Ma (The Natural History Museum/Yunnan University), David Siveter (University of Leicester), and Derek Siveter (University of Oxford). Comments on the manuscript by Allison Daley, John Paterson, and a referee are appreciated.

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Edgecombe, G.D., Legg, D.A. (2013). The Arthropod Fossil Record. In: Minelli, A., Boxshall, G., Fusco, G. (eds) Arthropod Biology and Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36160-9_15

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