No, that’s not a character in the screenplay first draft of Gladiator IV.
Worth a read.
From the abstract of the original publication:
Exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages, or Konservat-Lagerstätten, open direct windows on non-biomineralized faunas that chronicle the Cambrian radiation of animal phyla. However, these assemblages do not typically capture the well-oxygenated, resource-rich environments sustaining most metazoan diversity in modern marine systems. We describe exceptionally preserved and articulated carbonaceous mesofossils from the middle Cambrian (~507 to 502 million years) Bright Angel Formation of the Grand Canyon (Arizona, USA). This biota preserves probable algal and cyanobacterial photosynthesizers together with a range of functionally sophisticated metazoan consumers: suspension-feeding crustaceans, substrate-scraping molluscs, and morphologically exotic priapulids with complex filament-bearing teeth, convergent on modern microphagous forms. The Grand Canyon’s extensive ichnofossil and sedimentological records show that these phylogenetically and functionally derived taxa occupied highly habitable shallow-marine environments, sustaining higher levels of benthic activity than broadly coeval macrofossil Konservat-Lagerstätten. These data suggest that evolutionary escalation in resource-rich Cambrian shelf settings was an important driver of the assembly of later Phanerozoic ecologies.
I suppose if somebody called me a Konservat-Lagerstätten, I should take it as a compliment. (But as old fossils go, I’m really not all that well preserved.)
Konservat-Lagerstätten is also the name of Elon Musk’s new political party.