Beecher's Trilobite type preservation
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title:
Beecher's Trilobite type preservation
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The preservational regime of Beecher's Trilobite Bed (Upper Ordovician) and other similar localities involves the replacement of soft tissues with pyrite, producing a three-dimensional fossil replicating the anatomy of the original organism. Only gross morphological information is preserved (unlike Orsten type phosphate replacement), although the fossils are compressed some relief is preserved (unlike Burgess Shale type preservation). The pyrite formed in voids left when soft tissue had decayed,
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Replacement of soft tissues of a fossil with pyrite
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beecher%27s_Trilobite_type_preservation
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2023-08-13T20:21:04Z
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