Discovering missing body parts of ancient fossils: Waves and storms lifted fossils off the seafloor 550 million years ago

ScienceDaily
Mar 31, 2015, 6:06 pm210 pts
Certain specimens of the fossil Dickinsonia are incomplete because ancient currents lifted them from the sea floor, a team of paleontologists has found. Sand then got deposited beneath the lifted portion, the researchers report, strongly suggesting that Dickinsonia was mobile, easily separated from the sea…

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