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March 2008 |
April 2008 |
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Eccentrotheca from the Early
Cambrian of Australia, ther first partly articulated tommotiid found
(from Skovsted et al., 2008). [publication
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A
early Late Cambrian phosphatocopid
with
preserved
softparts
from the Swedish 'Orsten' fauna.
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Oichnus ispp., found in Palaeozoic
brachiopods from Canada, including the oldest report of O. excavatus (from Daley, 2008) [publication
]
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Calyxia
xandaros, a new acritarch genus and species from the Ediacaran of
Australia (from Willman and Moczydłowska, 2008) [publication ] |
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June
2008
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July
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August
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Not
a
fossil,
but
the 5th cleavage of Priapulus
caudatus (from Wennberg et al., 2008) [publication ]
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Artificially
produced
scleritome
of
Micrina
etheridgei supporting its new interpretation as a sessil
stem-group brachiopod (from Holmer et al., 2008) [publication
] |
Again
not
a
fossil,
but the stage 5 embryo of the milliped Glomeris marginata (from Janssen et
al., 2008). [publication ]
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Assemblage
of
the
middle
Cambrian sponge Choia
carteri. Seen in the field at Walcott quarry, Burgess Shale.
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October 2008 |
November 2008 |
December 2008 |
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The problematic genus Mawsonites, a potential holdfast
structure; Khatyspyt Formation (Ediacaran), north eastern Siberia (from Grazhdankin et al., 2008) [publication
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The flat and rather peculiar cyst of the
new calcareous dinoflagellate taxon Cylindratus
borzae from the Miocene of Slovakia (from Streng et al., 2008) [publication ] |
Computer
reconstruction of the upper Cambrian stem crustacean Oelandocaris
oelandica (from Stein et al., 2008) [publication
]
[see
it
animated ] |
The late Ediacaran Palaeolyngbya catenata, a cyanobacteria that
survived
the Neoproterozoic
glacial epochs (from Moczydłowska, 2008) [publication
] |