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“Can you tell me what kind it is?” A rock, thrust in my face by my keen-eyed daughter, looked like the kind of shale we’d been examining for the better part of an hour. The front side betrayed three trace fossils, while the obverse held something much clearer – a small but perfectly preserved trilobite. The legs and antennae told that it was an arthropod, and it looked like something that, if one found it on their leg or arm, would be instinctively and quickly swept away. Encased in shale, however, the novelty made me take it closer to