The fossils discovered in a Powys sheep field contain specimen not seen outside of North America.
Two fossils that were discovered by researchers are thought to be the first of their kind in Europe.
It means then date back more than 400 million years and resemble the creature Opabinia, which lived in Canada 40 million years earlier.Independent researchers and Llandrindod residents Dr Joseph Botting and Dr Lucy Muir found the fossil deposit in a sheep field.Fossils of a similar animal called utaurora came from rocks of a comparable age in the USA.
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