Symbiotic fouling of Vetulicola, an early Cambrian nektonic animal.
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SUBMITTER: Li Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7501249 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
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Symbiotic fouling of Vetulicola, an early Cambrian nektonic animal.
Li Yujing Y Williams Mark M Harvey Thomas H P THP Wei Fan F Zhao Yang Y Guo Jin J Gabbott Sarah S Fletcher Tom T Hou Xianguang X Cong Peiyun P
Communications biology 20200918 1
Here, we report the earliest fossil record to our knowledge of surface fouling by aggregates of small vermiform, encrusting and annulated tubular organisms associated with a mobile, nektonic host, the enigmatic Cambrian animal Vetulicola. Our material is from the exceptionally preserved early Cambrian (Epoch 2, Age 3), Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, southwest China, a circa 518 million-year old marine deposit. Our data show that symbiotic fouling relationships between species formed a comp ...[more]
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