Namacalathus and Cloudina Type post Author Günter Bechly Date July 9, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian Small Shelly Fauna, Cloudina, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran animals, Ediacaran era, Ediacaran Small Shelly Fauna, Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary, fossil record, lophotrochozoans, Nama Group, Namacalathus, Namacalathus hermanastes, Namapoikia, Namibia, National Geographic, paleontology, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, University of Edinburgh, University of Toronto Namacalathus, an Ediacaran Lophophorate Animal? Günter Bechly July 9, 2020 Evolution 9 I have been writing a series of articles on alleged Ediacaran animals that have been postulated as precursors of the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
Cloudina Type post Author Günter Bechly Date January 17, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , __edited, bilaterian animals, bilaterian worms, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian Small Shelly Fauna, Chengjiang biota, China, Cloudina, cloudinids, cloudinomorphs, cnidarian, Conotubus, Costatubus, Darwinian evolution, Dickinsonia, digestive tract, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, Ediacaran Small Shelly Fauna, Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary, Germany, GUT, James D. Schiffbauer, Nature Communications, Nevada, polyp, Saarina, skeleton, University of Missouri, Wood Canyon Formation Did Cloudinids Have the Guts to Be Worms? Günter Bechly January 17, 2020 Evolution 16 I promised last year to follow up on more alleged Ediacaran animals. Now is a good moment to come back to this, with a new study having just been published in the journal Nature Communications. Read More ›
