Tag: Lophotrochozoa

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, animal phyla, Anomalocaris, body plans, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous Period, cephalopods, chordates, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lophotrochozoa, Macquarie University, new york, paleontology, Simon Conway Morris, squid, stem group}

Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid

_{Günter Bechly
September 2, 2022

Biology, Paleontology, Science

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Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bilateral symmetry, brachiopods, bryozoans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, cnidarians, Ediacaran animals, homology, Lophotrochozoa, lophotrochozoans, Namacalathus}

Namacalathus Revisited — Not Much to See

_{Günter Bechly
January 19, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The new evidence is very ambiguous and totally inconclusive. No far-reaching conclusions should be drawn from such dubious material. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 31, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, Big Bangs, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charnia, Cnidaria, comb jellies, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, explosions, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, Lophotrochozoa, precambrian fossils, Richard Dawkins, saltations, Yilingia spiciformis}

#2 Story of 2020: Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum

_{Günter Bechly
December 31, 2020

Evolution

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None of the Cambrian animal phyla is represented in the Ediacaran fossil record. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, Big Bangs, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charnia, Cnidaria, comb jellies, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, explosions, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Lophotrochozoa, precambrian fossils, Richard Dawkins, saltations, Yilingia spiciformis}

Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum

_{Günter Bechly
September 21, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The fossil record speaks clearly and cries out loud: the history of life on Earth is a history of saltations. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran organisms, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, Kimberella series, limpets, Lophotrochozoa, scratch marks, Simon Conway Morris, tentacles, Wiwaxia}

Kimberella and Controversial Relationships — A Chronological Synopsis

_{Günter Bechly
September 18, 2020

Evolution

12}

It is remarkable, indeed, how detailed a medusoid morphology was projected onto Kimberella fossils and later recognized as pure fantasy. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animal phyla, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, Eumetazoa, evidence, evolution, evolutionary biology, intelligent design, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Lophotrochozoa, Metazoa, molecular clock, mollusks}

Was Kimberella a Precambrian Mollusk?

_{Günter Bechly
September 3, 2020

Evolution

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If identified as an animal, it would “predate the Cambrian explosion of bilaterian animal phyla as a kind of ‘advance guard.’” Read More ›