Figure 7
From: Synchronized moulting behaviour in trilobites from the Cambrian Series 2 of South China
Moulting configurations found in this study. (a) Axial shield (n = 396); (b) shield with missing cranidium (a variant of Henningsmoen’s configuration) (n = 12); (c) cephalon disarticulated (n = 1); (d) disarticulation along the thorax (n = 3); (e) cephalotrunk with displaced pygidium (n = 2); (f) Maksimova’s configuration (n = 2); (g) facial and cephalotrunk sutures opened (with librigenae missing) (n = 18); (h) Henningsmoen’s configuration (n = 1); (i) Salter’s configuration (n = 4); (j) Somersault’s configuration (n = 2).
