Saturday, 29 June 2024

The Best Preserved Trilobites

The Best Preserved Trilobites 

The New Scientist magazine has THIS ARTICLE which is based on the discovery of some remarkably well preserved Cambrian trilobites in Morocco. The original article can be found HERE. Full access is behind a pay wall but you can download a PDF, from the same page, which contains a huge amount of detail, including maps, illustrations and references.

The trilobites were preserved through rapid ash burial in a pyroclastic flow entering a shallow marine environment.


This fossil shows the digestive system (blue), the hypostome (green), the labrum (red) and selected appendages

Arnaud Mazurier/University of Poitiers

The finest details of its exterior and interior have been preserved. The illustration below gives you some idea of the level of detail.



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