Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social

Often these kinds of discoveries involve rapid mineralization immediately after burial, as in the Beecher's (pyrite), Orsten (phosphate/silica), and Walcott-Rust (calcite) deposits. But here, the preservation is physical not chemical, as soft ash formed impressions of the appendages & mouthparts.

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