Insights into soft-part preservation from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota

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The Burgess Shale paleocommunity with new insights from Marble Canyon, British Columbia

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Large trilobites in a stress-free Early Ordovician environment

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A new nektaspid euarthropod from the Lower Ordovician strata of Morocco

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Oxidative conditions can lead to exceptional preservation through phosphatization

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Coordinated biotic and abiotic change during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Darriwilian assembly of early Paleozoic building blocks

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A new hurdiid radiodont from the Burgess Shale evinces the exploitation of Cambrian infaunal food sources

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Digitization of Fossils from the Fezouata Biota (Lower Ordovician, Morocco): Evaluating Computed Tomography and Photogrammetry in Collection Enhancement

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Revisiting the Great Ordovician Diversification of land plants: Recent data and perspectives

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Collective behaviour in 480-million-year-old trilobite arthropods from Morocco

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Characterization of kerogenous films and taphonomic modes of the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Greenland

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A mineralogical signature for Burgess Shale–type fossilization

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Contextualizing the Onset of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

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Experimental analysis of soft-tissue fossilization: opening the black box

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Early fossil record of Euarthropoda and the Cambrian Explosion

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Exceptionally preserved soft parts in fossils from the Lower Ordovician of Morocco clarify stylophoran affinities within basal deuterostomes

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STORM-INDUCED COMMUNITY DYNAMICS IN THE FEZOUATA BIOTA (LOWER ORDOVICIAN, MOROCCO)

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Exceptionally-preserved late Cambrian fossils from the McKay Group (British Columbia, Canada) and the evolution of tagmosis in aglaspidid arthropods

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Age calibration of the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Lagerstätte, Morocco

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Hyoliths are Palaeozoic lophophorates

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Ancestral morphology of crown-group molluscs revealed by a new Ordovician stem aculiferan

(2017) Jakob Vinther et al.   NATURE

Digestive and appendicular soft-parts, with behavioural implications, in a large Ordovician trilobite from the Fezouata Lagerstätte, Morocco

(2017) Juan C. Gutiérrez-Marco et al.   Scientific Reports

Experimental evidence that clay inhibits bacterial decomposers: Implications for preservation of organic fossils

(2016) Sean McMahon et al.   GEOLOGY

The Lower Ordovician Fezouata Konservat-Lagerstätte from Morocco: Age, environment and evolutionary perspectives

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The Fezouata Shale (Lower Ordovician, Anti-Atlas, Morocco): A historical review

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Palynomorphs of the Fezouata Shale (Lower Ordovician, Morocco): Age and environmental constraints of the Fezouata Biota

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Conodonts from the Lower Ordovician of Morocco — Contributions to age and faunal diversity of the Fezouata Lagerstätte and peri-Gondwana biogeography

(2016) Oliver Lehnert et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Diversity and ecology of sponges in the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota, Morocco

(2016) Joseph P. Botting   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of Lower Ordovician graptolites from the Fezouata Shale (Moroccan Anti-Atlas)

(2016) Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Palaeoecological aspects of the diversification of echinoderms in the Lower Ordovician of central Anti-Atlas, Morocco

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A genetic link between Konzentrat- and Konservat-Lagerstätten in the Fezouata Shale (Lower Ordovician, Morocco)

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Biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental controls on the trilobite associations from the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale of the central Anti-Atlas, Morocco

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A wave-dominated, tide-modulated model for the Lower Ordovician of the Anti-Atlas, Morocco

(2016) Romain Vaucher et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Preservational Pathways of Corresponding Brains of a Cambrian Euarthropod

(2015) Xiaoya Ma et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Micrometric detail in palaeoscolecid worms from Late Ordovician sandstones of the Tafilalt Konservat-Lagerstätte, Morocco

(2015) Juan C. Gutiérrez-Marco et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The Fezouata fossils of Morocco; an extraordinary record of marine life in the Early Ordovician

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Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by a giant filter-feeder with paired flaps

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Diversity partitioning during the Cambrian radiation

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Brain structure resolves the segmental affinity of anomalocaridid appendages

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A unifying model for Neoproterozoic–Palaeozoic exceptional fossil preservation through pyritization and carbonaceous compression

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An exceptionally preserved arthropod cardiovascular system from the early Cambrian

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Integration of geochemical and isotopic tracers for elucidating water sources and salinization of shallow aquifers in the sub-Saharan Drâa Basin, Morocco

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Reproductive strategy of the bradoriid arthropod Kunmingella douvillei from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, South China

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Sedentary habits of anthozoa-like animals in the Chengjiang Lagerstätte: Adaptive strategies for Phanerozoic-style soft substrates

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A new approach to develop the Raman carbonaceous material geothermometer for low-grade metamorphism using peak width

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Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod

(2013) Gengo Tanaka et al.   NATURE

A new Ordovician eurypterid (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) from southeast Turkey: Evidence for a cryptic Ordovician record of Eurypterida

(2012) James C. Lamsdell et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod

(2012) Xiaoya Ma et al.   NATURE

PRESERVATION OF GIANT ANOMALOCARIDIDS IN SILICA-CHLORITE CONCRETIONS FROM THE EARLY ORDOVICIAN OF MOROCCO

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Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation

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PALEOECOLOGY OF THE OLENID TRILOBITE TRIARTHRUS: NEW EVIDENCE FROM BEECHER'S TRILOBITE BED AND OTHER SITES OF PYRITIZATION

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Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian

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Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation

(2010) Robert S. Sansom et al.   NATURE

Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type

(2010) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

The Burgess Shale Anomalocaridid Hurdia and Its Significance for Early Euarthropod Evolution

(2009) A. C. Daley et al.   SCIENCE

Turbidite depositional influences on the diagenesis of Beecher's Trilobite Bed and the Hunsruck Slate; sites of soft tissue pyritization

(2008) R. Raiswell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Cambrian Burgess Shale–type deposits share a common mode of fossilization

(2008) Robert R. Gaines et al.   GEOLOGY

Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids

(2008) Jakob Vinther et al.   NATURE

Origin, diversification, and relationships of Cambrian lobopods

(2007) Jianni Liu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Cambrian Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätten in South China: Distribution and significance

(2007) Xingliang Zhang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH