Study reveals Tully Monster is a vertebrate

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New study reveals Tullimonstrum was a vertebrate:

https://www.livescience.com/ancient-tully-monster-vertebrate.html?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=542020_Educational_Kits&utm_medium=email

[piranha]

vertebrate ... not a vertebrate ... vertebrate ...

 

McCoy, V.E., et al. 2016

The ‘Tully Monster’ is a vertebrate.

Nature, 532(7600):496-499  PDF LINK

 

Sallan, L., et al. 2017

The ‘Tully Monster’ is not a vertebrate: characters, convergence and taphonomy in Palaeozoic problematic animals.

Palaeontology, 60(2):149-157  PDF LINK

 

McCoy, V.E., et al. 2020

Chemical signatures of soft tissues distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte of Illinois.

Geobiology (in press)  LINK

 

 

 

[Runner64]

1 hour ago, piranha said:

vertebrate ... not a vertebrate ... vertebrate ...

 

McCoy, V.E., et al. 2016

The ‘Tully Monster’ is a vertebrate.

Nature, 532(7600):496-499  PDF LINK

 

Sallan, L., et al. 2017

The ‘Tully Monster’ is not a vertebrate: characters, convergence and taphonomy in Palaeozoic problematic animals.

Palaeontology, 60(2):149-157  PDF LINK

 

McCoy, V.E., et al. 2020

Chemical signatures of soft tissues distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte of Illinois.

Geobiology (in press)  LINK

Something tells me this may not be the last revision either. But for now, the latest research classifies it as a vertebrate.