Aquilonifer spinosus was an arthropod from the Herefordshire Lagerstatte. Tiny critters, possibly its young, were found on its legs (seen here in a dark yellow). This is an extremely rare example of arthropod parental care in the fossil record.
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1600489113

Dibasterium durgae was an ancient horseshoe crab from the Herefordshire Site in England. It was partly named after Durga, a Hindu goddess with many arms.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3465403/

Haliestes dasos is one of the oldest sea spiders known. Sea spiders are incredibly delicate and lack biomineralized tissue making this find an instant classic. Check out the model on Sketchfab!
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https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02928
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/haliestes-dasos-f5abcc7e2944459ca742ca57f604d41b

Dalmanites is the first Silurian trilobite with soft parts preserved in 3D. This remarkable specimen has its delicate legs preserved which normally rot away before fossilization.
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/spp2.1401

Sollasina cthulhu was a sea urchin-relative from the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstatte. Aptly named, it used its 45 tentacle-like tube feet to crawl around the ancient sea floor.
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2018.2792

This week we'll scan the English, Silurian-age Herefordshire site. This site yields 3D fossils with soft tissues. Normal preparation methods would destroy the fossils but modern computers can recreate them digitally.
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