On April 6, a new issue of the scientific journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America” was published, in which the work was co-authored by Tomasz Góral, PhD from the Center of New Technologies UW.
While still working at the London Museum of Natural History, together with an international team of scientists he began work on the publication entitled “Aquatic stem group myriapods close a gap between molecular divergence dates and the terrestrial fossil record,” which appeared on April 6 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). The article focuses on the characteristics of the arthropod species of the group Euthycarcinoidea (Heterocrania rhyniensis), found in the Scottish paleontological sites of Rhynie and Windyfield Cherts. They contain plant and animal fossils of one of the oldest terrestrial ecosystems from the early Devonian (about 410 million years ago).
– Using confocal and scanning electron microscopy techniques, for the first time we have visualized with great accuracy the details of the body, mainly the head, this arthropod, which are common to the Myriapodas. This reinforces the theory that Euthycarcinoidea and Myriapoda are the closely related lines – explains PhD Góral.
Sources: https://www.uw.edu.pl/dr-tomasz-goral-z-cent-uw-wspolautorem-artykulu-w-pnas/
