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Allison Daley and Pierre Gueriau of the ANOM Lab, together with Gilles Borel of the Cantonal Museum of Natural History, Department of Geology<\/a>, created a temporary exhibit at the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne from 27 November 2024 to 27 April 2025. This exhibit invites you to dive in and explore some of the oldest known animals that lived in the ancient oceans through a selection of spectacular fossils from the Fezouata Shale of Morocco. This exhibit features research carried out by the ANOM Lab that revealed the diversity and paleoecology of arthropods from the Ordovician geological period. The bright yellow to red fossils on display are unique witnesses to life at the South Pole 480 million years ago, including the first \u201cgiants\u201d of the seas, ancestors of many of today’s groups, and a variety of other strange organisms.<\/p>\n The english content of the exhibit can be view here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n The ANOM Lab works with the Cantonal Museum of Natural History, Department of Geology<\/a>, linked with research and teaching activities. The fossil collections located on UNIL campus are a focus of our current and future research projects, particularly associated with Fezouata Biota material. We also run undergraduate and masters teaching sessions in both the museum collections and the public exhibits at the Palais de Rumine.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Hear all about the earliest predators of the Cambrian Explosion from Allison Daley in: Palaeocast Episode 31: Anomalocaridids<\/a>.<\/p>\n As part of the St. Edmund Hall (Oxford University) Research Expo, Allison Daley presents the surprises our recent research has revealed about the ecology of anomalocaridids in early animal communities: Teddy Talks – Earth’s earliest super predators.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n As part of a series of podcasts on “Explosions”, Allison Daley describes what fossils can tell us about the Cambrian Explosion – a period of time 540 million years ago, when there was a vast increase in the different types of animals that existed: ‘Explosions’ part 2 – The origin of animal diversity.<\/a><\/p>\n Allison Daley d\u00e9crit l’\u00e9cologie des anomalocarides de l’explosion cambrienne dans cette ce<\/span><\/span>conf\u00e9rence, dans le cadre de la C\u00e9r\u00e9monie d\u2019ouverture des cours pour l\u2019ann\u00e9e acad\u00e9mique 2017-2018 (en fran\u00e7ais<\/span><\/span>): Les premiers pr\u00e9dateurs : fossiles extraordinaires de l\u2019explosion cambrienne.<\/a><\/p>\n The Emu Bay Shale is an important Cambrian fossil locality with exceptional preservation of soft-bodied fossils, including Anomalocaris<\/em><\/a>, and amazing trilobite moulting assemblages<\/a> showing detailed behaviour. We love this Palaeocast featuring Prof. John Paterson from the University of New England, an ANOM Lab external collaborator: Episode 36: Emu Bay Shale<\/a>.<\/p>\n Suite \u00e0 la publication d’un article de Daley, Antcliffe, Drage & Pates dans PNAS en 2018, Allison a \u00e9t\u00e9 interview\u00e9 au CQFD,Radio T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Suisse. \u00c9coutez l’interview en fran\u00e7ais ici:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nCantonal Museum of Natural History, Department of Geology:<\/h4>\n
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