March 1, 2016

Fossil of Chengjiangocaris kunmingensis and the magnification of part of its nervous cord (Image courtesy Jie Yang (top), Yu Liu (bottom))

An article published in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” describes a research conducted on five fossils of Chengjiangocaris kunmingensis, a crustacean-like arthropod that lived about 520 million years ago in today’s China. They preserved beautifully, so much that their individual nerves are visible making them the oldest fossils to show such details.