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Mats Eriksson

Mats Eriksson

Professor

Mats Eriksson

Half-a-billion-year-old microscopic treasures-the Cambrian 'Orsten' fossils of Sweden

Författare

  • Mats E. Eriksson
  • Dieter Waloszek

Summary, in English

The creatures that gaze back at us through the binocular microscope are so uniquely well-preserved and life-like that had we not known better we would have thought that they were modern. Instead they are half-a-billion-year-old arthropods extracted from Cambrian rocks of Sweden. The microscopic fossils, colloquially known as the 'Orsten' fossils, are now world-famous and basking in the light of the research catwalk since their discovery in the 1970s. These fossils have provided significant insight into the long lost Cambrian biotas and early animal evolution.

Avdelning/ar

  • Berggrundsgeologi

Publiceringsår

2016-05-01

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

115-120

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Geology Today

Volym

32

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Geology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0266-6979