Ortega Hernández, JavierEsteve Serrano, Jorge VicenteButterfield, Nicholas J.2024-02-022024-02-022013Ortega-Hernández, Javier, et al. «Humble Origins for a Successful Strategy: Complete Enrolment in Early Cambrian Olenellid Trilobites». Biology Letters, vol. 9, n.o 5, octubre de 2013, p. 20130679. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0679.10.1098/rsbl.2013.0679https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98396Trilobites are typified by the behavioural and morphological ability to enrol their bodies, most probably as a defence mechanism against adverse environmental conditions or predators. Although most trilobites could enrol at least partially, there is uncertainty about whether olenellids—among the most phylogenetically and stratigraphically basal representatives—could perform this behaviour because of their poorly caudalized trunk and scarcity of coaptative devices. Here, we report complete—but not encapsulating—enrolment for the olenellid genus Mummaspis from the early Cambrian Mural Formation in Alberta, the earliest direct evidence of this strategy in the fossil record of polymerid trilobites. Complete enrolment in olenellids was achieved through a combination of ancestral morphological features, and thus provides new information on the character polarity associated with this key trilobite adaptation.engjournal article1744-957Xhttps://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0679https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0679restricted access565.393“6131”MummaspisMural formationLower Dyeranfunctional morphologyPaleontología2416.02 Paleontología de Los Invertebrados