Gold bugs: Spectacular new fossil arthropod preserved in fool’s gold found in Beecher’s Trilobite Bed

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Gold bugs: Spectacular new fossil arthropod preserved in fool’s gold

University of Oxford, October 29, 2024

 

The open access paper is:

 

Parry, L.A., Briggs, D.E.G., Ran, R., O’Flynn, R.J., Mai, H.,  Clark, E.G.,

and Liu, Y., 2024. A pyritized Ordovician leanchoiliid arthropod.

Current Biology. Published online October 29, 2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.013

 

Another paper is:

 

Farrell, Ú.C., Briggs, D.E.G., Hammarlund, E.U., Sperling, E.A., and

Gaines, R.R., 2013. Paleoredox and pyritization of soft-bodied

fossils in the Ordovician Frankfort Shale of New York. American

Journal of Science, 313(5), 452–489. https://doi.org/10.2475/05.2013.02

 

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited October 30 by Oxytropidoceras
added link to open access paper