Allopatric molting of devonian trilobites

HIGHLIGHTS

  • who: Ruiwen Zong from the State Key LaboratoryChina University have published the research work: Allopatric molting of Devonian trilobites, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports
  • what: The main reason for the appearance of this behavior may have been to avoid adverse ecological factors such as predators and competitive organisms.

SUMMARY

    Trilobites need to molt several times during growth, however, each molt is a fairly brief process. ­Henningsmoen1 speculated that trilobite molting may be completed in only a few minutes based on the molting process of modern decapod crustaceans, and the . . .

     

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