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Images for early animal nursery

28 June 2012

Images for the news release 'Pompeii-style ash fall preserved 'nursery' of earliest animals'

Nursery of earliest animals found in fossils in rocks at Mistaken Point

Caption: Juvenile example of the rangeomorph fossil Charnia, measuring just 17 millimetres in length. Note the fine detail of the branches. Credit: OU/Jack Matthews

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Nursery of earliest animals found in fossils in rocks at Mistaken Point

Caption: Juvenile Trepassia wardae showing the fine detail of its branching pattern. This specimen is just 3 millimetres wide. Credit: OU/Alex Liu

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Nursery of earliest animals found in fossils in rocks at Mistaken Point

Caption: possible new fossil form. This organism has a long curved stem with fine 'branches' at its tip; these branches are some of the smallest organic features preserved at this locality. Credit: OU/Alex Liu

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Nursery of earliest enimals found in fossils in rocks at Mistaken Point

Caption: Jack Matthews of Oxford University photographing rangeomorph fossils in the rocks at the Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland. Photo: OU/Alex Liu

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 Nursery earliest animals found in fossils at Mistaken Point - view shown here

Caption: View of rocky shore at Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland. Photo: OU/Martin Brasier

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