Tag: lophophorates

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 26, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, cnidarian, echinoderms, Ediacaran Period, fungus, jellyfish, lophophorates, marine invertebrates, Mark McMenamin, medusoid, Metazoa, Mikhail Fedonkin, Precambrian House of Cards Series, sponges, Tribrachidium, Tribrachidium heraldicum, Trilobozoa, Vendobionta}

Uncertain Affinities of Trilobozoa

_{Günter Bechly
March 26, 2021

Evolution

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That the same fossils can be attributed to at least six different phyla of marine invertebrates as well as terrestrial fungi really should give reason to pause. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 18, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, brood chambers, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, lophophorates, lophotrochozoans, lumens, metazoans, Nama Group, Namacalathus, Namibia, paleontology, Science Advances, Second Namacalathus Series, Stephen Meyer}

Resurrecting Namacalathus as an Ediacaran Animal

_{Günter Bechly
January 18, 2021

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The new fossils stem from a layer in the Nama Group of Namibia, just below an ash bed that could be radiometrically dated to 547.32 ± 0.65 million years. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, algae, bilateral symmetry, brachiopods, Bryozoa, Cambrian Explosion, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Small Shelly Fauna, lophophorates, Middle Cambrian, Namacalathus, Namacalathus hermanastes, Paleobiology Database, phoronids, protists, sponges, Utah}

Namacalathus, Alleged Ediacaran “Animal,” Fails to Refute Abrupt Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
July 10, 2020

Evolution

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It could be anything, from a coelenterate-grade or sponge-grade organism to even a protist or an alga. Read More ›