Beecher's Trilobite Beds

Beecher's Trilobite Beds

Beecher's Trilobite Beds are upper Ordovician fossil bearing beds in New York, which contain exceptionally preserved fossils whose soft tissue has been preserved by pyritisation.cite journal
title = Exceptional Fossil Preservation and the Cambrian Explosion
year = 2003
journal = Integrative and Comparative Biology
volume = 43
issue = 1
pages = 166–177
doi = 10.1093/icb/43.1.166
author = Butterfield, Nicholas J.
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Beecher's Trilobite type preservation, the preservational pathway responsible

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