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References: YANISHEVSKY, M (1926). "On the remains of the tubular worms from the Cambrian blue clays". Ezhegodnik Russkogo Paleontologicheskogo Obchestva. 4: 99–112. Korkutis, V. A. 1966. Tubicolous Worms of the Lower Cambrian of the South of the East Baltic territory. Palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Baltic and the Byelorussia. Number I (VI), pp. 7-29. Małgorzata Moczydłowska, Frances Westall, Frédéric Foucher (2014). Microstructure and Biogeochemistry of the Organically Preserved Ediacaran Metazoan Sabellidites. J. of Paleontology, 88(2):224-239 (2014).
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I have noticed lately that a lot of fossils of so called Sabellidites cambriensis are popping up on a lot of sites for sale. They're sold as basal annelid worms that arose during the terminal Ediacaran. They predominantly are coming from the Lontova formation, dated at ~541-545 Mya, which is more or less the Ediacaran/Cambrian boundary. I would think that such fossils would be of great interest to researchers since, assuming they are basal annelids, they would represent one of, if not the first, appearances of a modern phylum in the fossil record. Yet the literature on this species is very sparse, with no more than half a dozen papers having been published since it's initial description in 1926. Does anyone here have any information on this subject?