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Restoration of two Hurdia victoria
Restoration of two Hurdia victoria
  • ... that the 500-million-year-old Cambrian predator Hurdia was thought to be a number of separate organisms for 100 years, until the complete animal was reconstructed in March 2009?
  • ... that the shrimp-like 510-million-year-old arthropod Waptia was named after two mountains?
  • ... that Orsten, fossil-bearing lagerstätten in Sweden and elsewhere, are called "stinking stones" from organic content that has been preserved since the Cambrian Period?
  • ... that the fordilloid Camya asy is one of four accepted Cambrian bivalves?
  • ...that despite being known from many specimens, the fossil Fuxianhuia (pictured) remains one of the most controversial Cambrian arthropods?