Tag: lophotrochozoans

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bilateral symmetry, brachiopods, brood chambers, bryozoans, calyx, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, cnidarians, ctenophorans, Ediacaran animals, entoprocts, folds, homology, lobes, Lophotrochozoa, lophotrochozoans, lumens, moss animals, Namacalathus, Second Namacalathus Series}

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
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 9, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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

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I have been writing a series of articles on alleged Ediacaran animals that have been postulated as precursors of the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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Date
October 7, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, animals, arthropod, BBC News, bilaterians, burrowing, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, chordate, Darwin's Doubt, earthworms, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, Kimberella, lophotrochozoans, Nature (journal), New Scientist, Stephen Meyer, trilobite, University of Edinburgh, Yilingia spiciformis}

Worming Evolution into the Cambrian Explosion

_{Science and Culture
October 7, 2019

Evolution

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A new fossil worm from the closing days of the Ediacaran is being celebrated as a missing link that demonstrates a gradual Cambrian diversification, not an explosion. Read More ›