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SUBMITTER: Zhang X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5674079 | biostudies-other | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Zhang Xingliang X Liu Wei W Isozaki Yukio Y Sato Tomohiko T
Scientific reports 20171106 1
The trace fossil record implies that large worm-like animals were in place along with the skeletonizing organisms during the initial stage of the Cambrian explosion. Body fossils of large worms, however, have so far not been found. Here, we describe a large, soft-bodied, worm-like organism, Vittatusivermis annularius gen. et sp. nov. from the lowest Cambrian of South China, which is constrained to the Fortunian Age (541-529 Ma) of the Cambrian Period. The elongate body of Vittatusivermis was lar ...[more]