Animating fossilized invertebrates by motion reconstruction

Zixin Wang; Wei Zhang; Jiahao Li; Ji Wang; Yunqiang Yang; Tong Bao; Jianing Wu; Bo Wang

doi:10.1093/nsr/nwad268

Animating fossilized invertebrates by motion reconstruction

Natl Sci Rev. 2023 Oct 14;10(12):nwad268. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwad268. eCollection 2023 Dec.

Authors

Zixin Wang^{1

2}, Wei Zhang^{3

4}, Jiahao Li^{5

6}, Ji Wang⁴, Yunqiang Yang², Tong Bao⁷, Jianing Wu¹, Bo Wang⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Advanced Manufacturing, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
² School of Engineering and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China.
³ Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, China.
⁴ School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sun Yat-sen University, China.
⁵ State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
⁶ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
⁷ School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, China.

Abstract

Taking the motion reconstruction of the Cretaceous hell ants as an example, this study shows how to achieve motion reconstruction in fossil invertebrates and discusses potential challenges and opportunities.