
Trilobites Found in Fools Gold: What Does It Mean?
October 27, 2009
Trilobites are icons of the Cambrian and Ordovician periods. When thousands are found in beds over a wide area encased in pyrite, with no sign of decay, what does it mean? A team publishing their findings in Geology suggests it means rapid burial.1 Here’s the abstract from their paper: Pyritization of soft tissues is extremely […]