The new species has been discovered by a research team lead by the University of Oxford.
A 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient relative of spiders has been discovered preserved in 3D by fool's gold.
Associate prof Luke Parry, of the university's department of earth sciences, said that the fossils were "spectacularly preserved". They can include the antennae of insects and crustaceans, and the pincers and fangs of spiders and scorpions.
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