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  • Vetulicola gangtoucunensis

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    Taxonomy

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Vetulicolia
    Class: Vetulicolida
    Order: Incertae sedis
    Family: Vetulicolidae
    Genus: Vetulicola
    Species: Vetulicola gangtoucunensis
    Author Citation Luo, Fu & Hu, 2005

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Paleozoic
    Period: Cambrian
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Early
    International Age: Age 4

    Stratigraphy

    Wulongqing Formation

    Provenance

    Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

    Dimensions

    Length: ~13 cm

    Location

    Chengjiang County
    Yunnan Province
    China

    Comments

    This new species of Vetulicola is easily identified thanks to the large triangular shape on the front of its head. 

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    oilshale

    The Taxonomy is (to say the least) uncertain: "Vetulicolians are one of the most problematic and controversial Cambrian fossil groups, having been considered as arthropods, chordates, kinorhynchs, or their own phylum." (citation from Garcia-Bellido et al.) "Recently examined Vetulicolian fossils show the presence of notochord-like structures. Therefore, it can be concluded that vetulicolians are crown-group  chordates and probably the sister group of modern tunicates." (citation from Wikipedia, article 'Vetulicolia')
     

    Lit.:

    García-Bellido, Diego C; Paterson, John R (2014). "A new vetulicolian from Australia and its bearing on the chordate affinities of an enigmatic Cambrian group". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14: 214. doi:10.1186/s12862-014-0214-z. PMC 4203957 Freely accessible. PMID 25273382

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