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•Scientists Reveal Rare 450-Million-Year-Old Arthropod Fossil Preserved in Glittering Fool’s Gold
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Fossils of arthropods are rare, because soft tissue often decays before it can be preserved.
The fossil was found in a rock layer in New York state known as Beecher’s Trilobite Bed .
Lomankus edgecombei belonged to an extinct subgroup of these creatures called megacheirans.
Lomankus fossil is “ one of the most visually stunning fossils I’ve ever seen. It sparkles like gold and looks like it belongs in an art museum,” says paleontologist Steve Brusatte .
The fossil is also evidence of the fact that megacheirans lived during the Cambrian Period ( 485 million to 538 million years ago).
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