2017
DOI: 10.12789/geocanj.2017.44.115
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Who Was the First Person Known to Have Discovered Fossils of the Precambrian (Ediacaran) Organism Aspidella terranovica?

Abstract: This article briefly examines the possible confusion pertaining to the discoveries of Precambrian (Ediacaran) fossils made in the self-governing British colony of Newfoundland in 1868 by the amateur naturalist, the Reverend Moses Harvey, and the subsequent description and naming of the fossil organism Aspidella terranovica in 1872 by Elkanah Billings, the father of Canadian paleontology. Both events could be misinterpreted as one transaction that began with the former event and ended with the latter event. Acc… Show more

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“…Most of the early discoveries of Ediacaran fossils were serendipitous (Richter, 1955;Ford. 1958;Anderson & Misra, 1968;Keller & Fedonkin, 1976;Minicucci, 2017), but Reg Sprigg (1919Sprigg ( -1994 was actually looking for early animals when he found the holotype of Ediacaria flindersi (Fig. 1) at Ediacara in March 1946 (Sprigg, 1947(Sprigg, , 1988.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Most of the early discoveries of Ediacaran fossils were serendipitous (Richter, 1955;Ford. 1958;Anderson & Misra, 1968;Keller & Fedonkin, 1976;Minicucci, 2017), but Reg Sprigg (1919Sprigg ( -1994 was actually looking for early animals when he found the holotype of Ediacaria flindersi (Fig. 1) at Ediacara in March 1946 (Sprigg, 1947(Sprigg, , 1988.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%