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Coffee
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Responsible
Party
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Soft-bodied
animals
(Aspidella sp.) |
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Age
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Cambrian
Period
(About 505 million years ago) |
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Where
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Saint
John, New Brunswick |
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Cast
or Mold
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Cast |
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Collector
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Staff
of the New Brunswick Museum |
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Are
you looking at coffee cup impressions?
These fossils were originally thought to have been jelly fish
"resting traces" - impressions left when jelly fish rested in
the sand. Palaeontologists are now in the process of re-examining
this specimen.
They think the rounded impressions were made by soft-bodied
animals. The animals are known as "Ediacaran Fauna" and are
quite possibly the Earth's oldest animal "macrofossils" (fossils
that are visible to the naked eye). Some palaeontologists believe
that the Ediacaran Fauna have no living relatives. |
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