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That quote "Oh no, not another f***" ended with the word Phylum, not elf. It relates to a vast fossil bed discovered with thousands of fossils of creatures never seen before, and it was attributed to one of the palaeontogists trying to make sense of them.
But it seems even there it is apocryphal. It is amusingly related in Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything".
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