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Fossils of the month 2008

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January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008
Eccentrotheca from the Early Cambrian of Australia, ther first partly articulated tommotiid found (from Skovsted et al., 2008). [publication ] A early Late Cambrian phosphatocopid with preserved softparts from the Swedish 'Orsten' fauna.
Oichnus ispp., found in Palaeozoic brachiopods from Canada, including the oldest report of O. excavatus (from Daley, 2008) [publication Calyxia xandaros, a new acritarch genus and species from the Ediacaran of Australia (from Willman and Moczydłowska, 2008) [publication ]



May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008
Not a fossil, but the 5th cleavage of Priapulus caudatus (from Wennberg et al., 2008) [publication ]
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 ]
Assemblage of the middle Cambrian sponge Choia carteri. Seen in the field at Walcott quarry, Burgess Shale.



September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008
The problematic genus Mawsonites, a potential holdfast structure; Khatyspyt Formation (Ediacaran), north eastern Siberia (from Grazhdankin et al., 2008) [publication ] 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 ]
 

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