Fossil 450 years old covered inside a miner so called fake golddiscovered by researcher.
Fossil arthropods, groups of spiders, centipedes and insects from the Ordovician Period published by a team researcher directed by Professor Luke Parry, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.
The sample is preserved with pyrite (fake gold), thus giving the appearance of a beautiful gold nugget.
“Besides a beautiful and amazing golden color, these fossils are very well preserved. Fossil“This fossil looks like it could get up and run away,” he said Parry quoted from the official page University of OxfordSaturday (2/11/2024), reported by CNBC Indonesia.
Fossil was found on a site in New York, USA, in which “Beecher’s Trilobite Bed“, a layer of rock containing many preserved trilobites.
Apart from trilobites, many other types of organisms are rarely found at this site, so it can be said that this find is very rare.
Fossil which was named Lomankus edgecombei after arthropod specialist Greg Edgecombe of the Natural History Museum in London.
They belong to a group called megacheirans, an iconic group of fossil arthropods with large feet, adapted to the front of the body for catching prey.
Megacheirans such as Lomankus were very diverse during the Cambrian Period (538-485 million years ago) but are thought to have largely disappeared by the Ordovician Period (485-443 million years ago), when these new fossils were preserved.
Animals preserved in Beecher’s Trilobite Bed living in hostile environments with low oxygen allows pyrite, commonly known as fake goldreplacing their body parts after being buried in sediment. Which produces 3D fossils with golden color.
Pyrite Yes a miner which is so dense, that fossils from these layers can be scanned to reveal hidden details of their anatomy.
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2024-11-02 06:45:00
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