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Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the thirteenth in my series of short articles on fossils of the Cambrian. Olenoides serratus is one of the most recognisable members of the Burgess Shale fauna – a trilobite that, unlike so many of its soft-bodied neighbours, still looks reassuringly like a trilobite. Yet …

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 “If there is one type of man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coal-miner.”— George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier This article explores a single landscape – Aberdare – through three interlocking layers: the Carboniferous forests that formed the coal, the industrial system that extracted …

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Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the twelfth in my series of short articles on fossils of the Cambrian. Among the many unusual organisms preserved in the Chengjiang and Burgess Shale-type faunas, Odontogriphus omalus stands out as one of the most revealing. A soft-bodied, oval creature from the early Cambrian seafloor, …

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Jon Trevelyan (UK) Today, the coast from near Maryport, south down to Whitehaven is a quiet edge of the Solway Firth, marked by overgrown farmland and the remnants of old collieries. Yet the rocks beneath preserve something far more remarkable – the record of one of the most extensive tropical …

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Jon Trevelyan (UK) This is the eleventh in my series of short articles on fossils of the Cambrian. Nectocaris pteryx is one of the most perplexing and remarkable animals of the Cambrian, a soft-bodied swimmer from the Burgess Shale, whose anatomy has challenged, confounded and intrigued palaeontologists for decades. Living …

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