Pyritized <i>Conotubus</i> Fossil Specimen (IMAGE)

University of Missouri-Columbia

Pyritized <i>Conotubus</i> Fossil Specimen

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These are three-dimensionally pyritized tube-worm like fossils, Conotubus, from the 550-million-year-old Gaojiashan Lagerstätte, Shaanxi Province, South China.

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Yaoping Cai, Northwest University, Xi'an, China

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