Fossil Halkieria evangelista (image)

University of Bristol

Caption

Fossil Halkieria evangelista from the Cambrian Sirius Passet fossil Lagerstätte of North Greenland. The affinity of halkieriids has been much debated, showing similarities to molluscs, brachiopods and annelids. It has been interpreted to represent a distinct Cambrian animal body plan but it is more conventionally interpreted as a primitive mollusc.

Credit

Jakob Vinther, University of Bristol.

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