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500-million-year-old fossil helps fill a strange gap in our record of life on Earth
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A 500-million-year-old fossil discovery helps palaeontologists understand the 'Furongian gap', a poorly-documented period in the Cambrian era between periods of high biodiversity in the fossil record.
500-million-year-old fossil helps fill a strange gap in our record of life on Earth
Artist's reconstruction of _Magnicornaspis garwoodi_ in life. Thomas Turner
Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place.
The known fossil record from this time, which falls within the Cambrian period, contains a missing chapter. Palaeontologists refer to it as the “Furongian gap”. And it’s striking because there is an explosion of biodiversity within the fossil record both immediately before and after it.
This decline has been c
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