Some New (but Old) Cambrian Fossils

A correspondent sent me THIS LINK (but I had spotted it my self!). It concerns a recently discovered Lagerstätte in Southern China, called the Huayuan biota.

It has an added importance as being just after the first mass extinction of the Phanerozoic. It contains some old favourites from the Burgess Shale but many new species have been identified.

The find is of importance for many reasons but for me it is important for the wonderful photographs of the beasties. The source academic paper is HERE

non-bilaterian metazoans and deuterostomes from the Huayuan biota