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A remarkable arthropod fauna from the Upper Cambrian “Orsten” of Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Klaus J. Müller  and
Dieter Walossek
Klaus J. Müller
Affiliation:
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Institut für Paläontologie, Nuβallee 8, D-5300 Bonn 1, B.R.D.
Dieter Walossek
Affiliation:
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Institut für Paläontologie, Nuβallee 8, D-5300 Bonn 1, B.R.D.
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Abstract

Extensive preparation since 1975 has yielded thousands of specimens of various minute arthropods, mainly phosphatocopid ostracods and other crustaceans. The whole exoskeleton is exceedingly well preserved in three dimensions, showing even delicate mo1 phological details. The material permits not only the description of the morphology and systematic status of the animals but also interpretation, with a high degree of confidence, of the function, life habit, and ontogeny of these early arthropods.

Keywords

Crustaceaecologyenvironmentfunctionmorphologyphosphatisation.
Type
Evidence for life habits from exceptionally preserved faunas
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 76 , Issue 2-3: Fossil Anthropods as Living Animals , 1985 , pp. 161 - 172
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1985

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