First complete animal nervous system

- Who
- Alalcomenaeus sp.
- What
- First
- Where
- China
- When
- 2013
The earliest known complete animal nervous system is perfectly preserved in a recently studied fossil of a 3-cm-long, hitherto-unknown species of segmented-bodied marine arthropod that is an ancestor of present-day chelicerates (spiders, scorpions, horseshoe crabs). Belonging to the long-extinct genus Alalcomenaeus, it lived more than 520 million years ago during the Lower Cambrian Period in seas now occupied by southwest China.