Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Published October 24, 2018 17:01 EDT (Brief from Royal Society)
This first analysis of the feeding biomechanics of modern and extinct shell-crushing arthropods shows remarkable similarities between the feeding structures of the modern American horseshoe crab and the 508-million-year-old Sidneyia inexpectans from British Columbia’s Burgess Shale. This biomechanical solution to processing shelly food may have arisen soon after shell-bearing animals first appeared.
Corresponding author: Russell Bicknell, University of New England – rdcbicknell@gmail.com
