Micro-CT tiffstack of the Cambrian arthropod fossil Ercaicunia multinodosa YKLP 16201 from Chengjiang biota

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These are the original morphological data resulted from X-ray micro-computed tomographical analysis of a delicately preserved arthropod fossil (specimen number: YKLP 16201) from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota. The related manuscript will be published in Current Biology. The specimen is housed in Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology, Yunnan University, PRC.

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The two slabs (part and counterpart) of the specimen were scanned with a Zeiss Xradia 520 Versa at high resolution (pixel size = 4.9 micro-meters), resulting in a series of tiff images, which can be processed with 3D visualization softwares to creat 3D models.

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