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MicroCT reveals detailed head morphology of arthropod fossil

June 26, 2020
Tomographic models of Leanchoilia illecbrosa juveniles from the Cambrian (Stage 3) Chengjiang biota of South China
Tomographic models of Leanchoilia illecbrosa juveniles from the Cambrian (Stage 3) Chengjiang biota of South China. Courtesy of Javier Ortega-Hernández and Yu Liu

A new paper in Current Biology shows the head morphology of the species Leanchoilia illecebrosa - a member of Megacheira, an extinct group of arthropods. This is the fifth in a series of publications that represent an ongoing collaboration between research groups led by MCZ's Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology and OEB professor Javier Ortega-Hernández and Yu Liu, Professor of Paleobiology at Yunnan University.

Read the EurekaAlert for more details on the collaboration and use of microCT to analyze fossils.

See also: Invertebrate Zoology