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Name the Bug Revived

By Christopher Taylor at 6/24/2019 01:23:00 pm
It's been a very long time since I last did one of these, and I'm not sure if I still have the readership for it, but I'm genuinely interested to know what anyone can make of this (attribution to follow):


Some necessary context: they're fossils, Cambrian in age, I presume being examined in thin section. The specimens numbered 1, 2 and 3 were described as three different species of a single genus. Even if you don't know exactly what it is, let me know what you think it might be...

Edit: Forgot to give an indicator of size. They're about the one-centimetre range in maximum breadth.

4 comments:

  1. Adam Yates24 June 2019 at 17:37

    You certainly jumped straight into the deep end with this one, I did my honours on cambrian problematica and I have little idea what these are. Large acritarchs?

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  2. Adam Yates24 June 2019 at 20:57

    OK I now see the edit, too big to be acritarchs...

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  3. Christopher Taylor26 June 2019 at 18:15

    Firstly, Adam, is there anything you haven't worked on at some point? Secondly, the follow-on post is now up here.

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