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Burgess Shale fossil quarry These rocks contain large numbers of fossils from 500 million years ago They were formed when an avalanche of fine mud b
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Sea Scorpion Eurypterus
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Glencoul Thrust on the Aird da Loch peninsula showing Cambrian quartzite sandwiched between layers of Lewisian gneiss in Scotland by alimdi Arterra
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Prästens badkar priests bathtub Cambrian fossil sand volcano sandstone blow sand boil along the Baltic Sea near Vik Skåne Scania Sweden Europ
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Prästens badkar priests bathtub Cambrian fossil sand volcano sandstone blow sand boil along the Baltic Sea near Vik Skåne Scania Sweden Europ
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Prästens badkar priests bathtub Cambrian fossil sand volcano sandstone blow sand boil along the Baltic Sea near Vik Skåne Scania Sweden Europ
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Dr Andrew Parker (b 1967) Australian biologist uses a reflectance spectrometer to measure the properties of irridescent structures Parker is a res
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striated iron ore deposit
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Foraminifera SEM
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Cambrian explosion conceptual illustration
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Ediacaran Period fauna conceptual illustration by SAM FALCONER DEBUT ARTSCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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BDr Andrew Parkerb (b 1967) Australian biologist holding a trilobite fossil Parker is a research fellow at Oxford University He was the first t
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Llyn Brianne Reservoir Cambrian Mountains Wales
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Llyn Brianne Reservoir Cambrian Mountains Wales
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Llyn Brianne Reservoir Cambrian Mountains Wales
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Banded iron formation illustration
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Artwork of Hallucigenia sparsa This bizarre creature - of which three species are known - lived in the Cambrian seas around 500 million years ago It
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Artwork of Hallucigenia sparsa This bizarre creature - of which three species are known - lived in the Cambrian seas around 500 million years ago It
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Ammonite fossils
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Ediacaran fossil Fossil of a soft-bodied multi-cellular organism (Tribrachidium heraldicum) from the Ediacaran Period (around 635 to 542 million yea
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National Indoor Arena King Edwards Road Birmingham 01051991 A view from Cambrian Wharf looking south west towards the National Indoor Arena in B
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Mitrata fossil illustration Photo by DK IMAGESSCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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Nostoc algae Light micrograph of Nostoc sp a blue-green algae or cyanobacteria The strands are formed from single-celled prokaryotic organisms m
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The simple eye of a springtail
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Wiwixia cambrian invertebrate illustration Wiwaxia was a striking animal with a body that was symmetrical about its length elliptical viewed from t
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Prismatic crystals of emerald embedded in their host rock a gneissic granite from Cambrian deposits along Lake Mjosen some 60 km north of Oslo Norwa
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Foraminifera Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a selection of foraminiferans collected from a beach in Goa India Foraminiferans are ma
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Sea pen fossil Fossil of a sea pen from the Ediacaran Period (around 635 to 542 million years ago) Lifeforms of the Ediacaran Period represent the e
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Illustration of a prehistoric Haikouichthys sp fish This extinct fish lived around 535 million years ago in the Cambrian period It grew to around 2
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Foraminiferan Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a foraminiferan fossil Foraminiferans are marine single-celled protists that construct
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Alien life form artwork The shape of this alien life form is similar to those seen on Earth during the Cambrian Explosion This was a period in the
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Cambrian sea life illustration
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Cambrian invertebrate Artwork of a Hallucigenia fortis invertebrate (red) and jellyfish swimming in an ancient sea during the Middle Cambrian The Ca
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Primitive vertebrate artwork
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Fossil jellyfish (Mawsonites spriggi) This is a cast of the holotype of Mawsonites spriggi a specimen of the Ediacara fauna from the Pre-cambrian of
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Trilobite fossils Rock containing two fossilised trilobites from the Cambrian Period (about 542-490 million years ago) Trilobites are extinct hard-s
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Trilobite fossil Fossil of a trilobite (Eldredgeops crassituberculata) from the Devonian period (around 370 million years ago) showing the animals
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Trilobite fossil Fossil of a quadrops trilobite (Flexuosa sp) showing the animals many spines Trilobites are extinct hard-shelled segmented arthr
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Cambrian animals Artwork of an Opabinia regalis invertebrate (upper right) attempting to catch its prey a primitive chordate called Pikaia (lower le
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Cambrian invertebrate Artwork of a Marrella splendens invertebrate (left) swimming in an ancient sea during the Cambrian Period This period is known
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Trilobite fossil This bottom dwelling marine arthropod inhabited seas between the Cambrian and Permian periods 542-250 million years ago It scaveng
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Light micrograph of Nostoc sp a filamentous blue-green alga or cyanobacterium The strands of alga are in fact linear colonies of primitive single
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Fossilised trilobites This particular species of trilobite is Asaphus punctatus It represents an intermediate evolutionary stage showing the start o
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Trident trilobite fossil Trilobites were bottom- dwelling marine scavengers that inhabited seas between the Cambrian and Permian periods 542-250 mil
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Trident trilobite fossil Head of a trident trilobite a bottom-dwelling marine scavenger Trilobtes inhabited seas between the Cambrian and Permian p
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Hyolithid fossil The hyolithids were a group of bottom-dwelling shelled invertebrates It is thought that they fed on organic detritus in seabed mud
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Mollusc fossil shells from the 500 million-year- old Burgess Shale rock These shells are Scenella sp marine molluscs which are now extinct The Bur
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Trilobite fossil from the 500 million-year-old Burgess Shale rocks This is the rear end of the trilobite its pygidium The segmented form of the she
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Crustacean fossil from the 500 million-year-old Burgess Shale rocks This is Waptia fieldensis a marine crustacean that is now extinct Only the rear
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Fossil crustacean Fossilized remains of a Canadaspis sp Middle Cambrian Era (500 million years ago) arthropod from the Burgess Shale It was a mari
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Trilobite fossil Fossil of the trilobite Ptychagnostus praecurrens The trilobites are an extinct group of marine arthropods with a hard segmented s
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Fossil worm (Ottoia sp) from the Burgess Shale area This priapulid worm lived in the Middle Cambrian era over 500 million years ago This worm live
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