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English:
Fossil specimen of
Opabinia regalis
from the
Burgess shale
on display at the
Smithsonian
in Washington, DC. This appears to be the exact specimen pictured in Fig. 42 of 'The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals', by
Simon Conway Morris
, Oxford University Press, 1998.
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| Date | 12 April 2009 (original upload date) |
| Source | Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by FunkMonk using CommonsHelper . |
| Author | Jstuby at English Wikipedia |
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- 2009-04-12 15:32 Jstuby 1378×753× (334699 bytes) Fossil specimen of [[Opabinia|Opabinia regalis]] from the [[Burgess shale]] on display at the [[National Museum of Natural History|Smithsonian]] in Washington, DC. This appears to be the exact specimen pictured in Fig. 42 of 'The Crucible of Creation: Th