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University of Bonn
Steinmann Institute
for Geology, Mineralogy and Palaeontology
External Research Associate (Prof. Rust)
Nussallee 8
53115 Bonn, Germany

Analyses of Fossilised Eye Systems

PD Dr. Brigitte Schoenemann

University of Cologne
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Institute of Biology Education
Herbert-Lewin-Str. 10
50931 Cologne, Germany

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The median eyes of trilobites
Brigitte Schoenemann & Euan N.K. Clarkson
Scientific Reports 13, 3917 (2023)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31089-7

A 390 million-year-old hyper-compound eye in Devonian phacopid trilobites
B. Schoenemann, E.N.K. Clarkson, C. Bartels, W. Südkamp, U. Ryck
Scientific Reports 11, 19505 (2021)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-98740-z

Insights into a 429-million-year-old compound eye
Brigitte Schoenemann & Euan N.K. Clarkson
Scientific Reports
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-69219-0

Insights into the 400 million-year-old eyes of giant sea scorpions (Eurypterida) suggest the structure of Palaeozoic compound eyes.
Brigitte Schoenemann, Markus Poschmann & Euan N.K. Clarkson
Scientific Reports
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-53590-8

Structure and function of a compound eye, more than half a billion years old
Brigitte Schoenemann, Helje Pärnaste & Euan N. K. Clarkson
PNAS
www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/11/28/1716824114.full

Traces of an ancient immune system – how an injured arthropod survived 465 million years ago.
Brigitte Schoenemann, Euan N. K. Clarkson & Magne Høyberget
Scientific Reports
www.nature.com/articles/srep40330

Exceptional preservation of eye structure in arthropod visual predators from the Middle Jurassic.
Vannier J., Schoenemann B. , Gillot T., Charbonnier S. & Clarkson E.N.K.
Exceptional preservation of eye structure in arthropod visual predators from the Middle Jurassic.
Nature Communications
www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160119/ncomms10320/full/ncomms10320.html


An overview on trilobite eyes and their functioning
Brigitte Schoenemann
Arthropod Structure & Development
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1467803921000062

Evolution of Eye Reduction and Loss in Trilobites and Some Related Fossil Arthropods
Brigitte Schoenemann
Emerging Science Journal
www.ijournalse.org/index.php/ESJ/article/view/114
www.ijournalse.org/index.php/ESJ/article/download/114/57

Artificial compound eye: a survey of the state-of-the-art
Sidong Wu, Tao Jiang, Gexiang Zhang, Brigitte Schoenemann, Ferrante Neri, Ming Zhu, Chunguang Bu, Jianda Han & Klaus-Dieter Kuhnert
Artificial Intelligence Review
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10462-016-9513-7