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Fossilied musculature of an early Cambrian cycloneuralian animal
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Early Cambrian microfossils preserve introvert musculature of cycloneuralians The open access paper is: Zhang, H., Xiao, S., Eriksson, M.E., Duan, B. and Maas, A., 2023. Musculature of an Early Cambrian cycloneuralian animal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290(2008), p.20231803. Yours, Paul H. -
Found this at Ladonia Fossil Park. Thought it was just a phosphate nodule but I've recently seen similar fossils labeled as fish coprolite. ID assistance would be appreciated, thank you for your time.
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From the album: North Sulphur River
Phosphatized baculite collected in the North Sulfur River in Ladonia, TX. The suture patterns have a beautiful mathematical quality to them. -
Before These Parasitic Wasps Finished Devouring Live Flies, They Became Fossils. In fly pupae that turned to stone, scientists found evidence that wasps have been infesting other insects for tens of millions of years. By Nicholas St. Fleur, Aug. 28, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/science/wasps-parasites-fossils.html Digitally Resurrected: Parasitic Wasp Xenomorphia resurrecta Deposits An Egg in a Fly Pupa (IMAGE) https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/179216.php The paper is: Thomas van de Kamp, Achim H. Schwermann, Tomy dos Santos Rolo, Philipp D. Lösel, Thomas Engler, Walter Etter, Tomáš Faragó, Jörg Göttlicher, Vincent Heuveline, Andreas Kopmann, Bastian Mähler, Thomas Mörs, Janes Odar, Jes Rust, Nicholas Tan Jerome, Matthias Vogelgesang, Tilo Baumbach and Lars Krogmann, 2018, Parasitoid biology preserved in mineralized fossils. Nature Communications 9, Article number: 3325. Article | Open | Published: 28 August 2018 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05654-y Yours, Paul H.