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490-Million-Year-Old Arthropod Fossil Fills Puzzling Gap in Fossil Record


A new species of corcoraniid arthropod that lived during the Furongian epoch, between 497 and 487 million years ago, has been identified from an exceptionally preserved specimen found near Québec, Canada.

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