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Long-Misidentified Fossil is First Known Nonmarine Lobopodian, Paleontologists Say

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Long-Misidentified Fossil is First Known Nonmarine Lobopodian, Paleontologists Say
Environmental reconstruction of the Montceau-les-Mines Lagerstätte with Palaeocampa anthrax: a large Palaeocampa anthrax is depicted at the edge of a shallow inland streambed, shadowed by the lush vegetation and mist of a coal forest, flanked by several euthycarcinoids, Sottyxerxes multiplex, and a pair of freshwater xiphosurans, Alanops magnificus; the nearest ocean environment is several hundred km southwest. Image credit: Knecht et al., doi: 10.1038/s42003-025-08483-0.

Palaeocampa anthrax most likely inhabited a freshwater environment, contesting the view that Paleozoic lobopodians were exclusively marine.

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