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OUR communication1 did not describe new fossils from the Pre-Cambrian of Newfoundland but rather gave brief details of the presence of a metazoan fauna of this age, because our aim was to announce what we regard as an important discovery, and we indicated quite clearly that details of the fauna would be published elsewhere. We concentrated on the stratigraphical aspects of the fossil locality because it is essential to establish from the outset that the rocks containing them are in fact Pre-Cambrian and not Lower Palaeozoic or younger. It is true that we did not provide evidence of the organic origin of the structures interpreted as fossils, but we assumed, perhaps wrongly, that readers would await this information in the actual account of the fauna.
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ANDERSON, M., MISRA, S. Criteria for recognizing Pre-Cambrian Fossils. Nature 223, 1076 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2231076b0
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