Development, Trait Evolution, and the Evolution of Development in Trilobites.

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Trilobites offer one of the best fossil records of any arthropod group. This is due to a number of factors, most notably the combination of (1) having inhabited areas where organisms are more likely to be buried and ultimately fossilized; and (2) having had a highly biomineralized exoskeleton more likely to survive the stresses of fossilization. This biomineralized exoskeleton was also morphologically complex,...

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