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Ediacaran Animal With Muscles, Mistaken Point, Newfoundland


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N.L. fossil shows earliest evidence ever of animals

with muscles: Haootia quadriformis similar to modern

jellyfish, sea anemones by Jen White, CbC news

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/n-l-fossil-shows-earliest-evidence-ever-of-animals-with-muscles-1.2747320

Liu, A. G., J. J. Matthews, L. R. Menon, D.

McIlroy, and M. D. Brasier, 2014, Haootia

quadriformis n. gen., n. sp., interpreted as a

muscular cnidarian impression from the Late

Ediacaran period (approx. 560 Ma). Proceedings

of the Royal Society B, vol. 281 no. 1793

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1793/20141202.short

Yours,

Paul H.

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An additional article that discusses the discovery of Haootia quadriformis from a local point of view.

Rare fossil found in Port Union by Kevin Curley

The Packet, September 11, 2014

http://www.thepacket.ca/News/Local/2014-09-11/article-3866042/Rare-fossil-found-in-Port-Union/1

Yours,

Paul H.

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