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New perspectives on the globally important Ediacaran fossil discoveries in Charnwood Forest, UK: prequel to

Mike P.A. Howe, Mark Evans, John N. Carney and Philip R. Wilby
Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 59, 137-144, 19 December 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/pygs2012-321
Mike P.A. Howe
1British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK
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2Leicester Arts and Museums Service, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, 53 New Walk, Leicester, LE1 7EA, UK
3Department of Geology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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The study of latest Neoproterozoic fossils that comprise the Ediacara biota is a relatively new frontier of palaeontology. That it started when it did is due, in no small measure, to the discovery of macrofossils in Charnwood Forest in 1957, and their description in a paper to the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society by Trevor Ford in 1958. There is a prequel to this, however. We reveal newly found correspondence showing that as long ago as 1848 enterprising naturalists had seen these macrofossils and recognized them as such. The subsequent rejection of those finds by others mirrors the experiences of geologists elsewhere in the world, and is attributed to a previously received wisdom that macrofossils only occurred in Cambrian or younger strata.

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New perspectives on the globally important Ediacaran fossil discoveries in Charnwood Forest, UK: prequel to

Mike P.A. Howe, Mark Evans, John N. Carney and Philip R. Wilby
Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 59, 137-144, 19 December 2012, https://doi.org/10.1144/pygs2012-321
Mike P.A. Howe
1British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK
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    • 1. Background to Discovery: Darwin’s Dilemma
    • 2. The 1848 Prequel: The First Fossil Finds at Charnwood Forest
    • 3. Proving the Age of the Charnian: Charles Lapworth (1898)
    • 4. Global Significance of the Charnwood Discoveries
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