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    Myoscolex is an early animal known from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale in South Australia. It is of unknown affinity but has been interpreted as an annelid...
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    more opabiniids were discovered. That being Utaurora, and Mieridduryn. Myoscolex from Emu Bay Shale is sometimes suggested to be an opabiniid, but morphological...
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    opabiniid, with the other being Opabinia itself. There are other animals like Myoscolex and Mieridduryn that could be opabiniids, but the classification of those...
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    and Nedin reported from South Australia Emu Bay Shale a new specimen of Myoscolex that was much better preserved than previous specimens, leading them to...
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  • closely resembles the modern creature Branchiostoma. A fossil species Myoscolex ateles, discovered in 1979 from Cambrian Emu Bay shale of Kangaroo Island...
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    Burgess Shale, formed about 505 million years ago in the Middle Cambrian. Myoscolex, found in Australia and a little older than the Burgess Shale, was possibly...
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    With the exclusion of questionable taxa (e.g. the putative opabiniid Myoscolex), the former were known only by Opabinia, while all radiodont species...
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    Kangacaris zhangi), the palaeoscolecid worm Wronascolex, the problematic Myoscolex and Vetustovermis, and a number of rarer elements. The Big Gully trilobites...
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  • 556-574 Dzik, J. 2004. Anatomy and relationships of the Early Cambrian worm Myoscolex. Zoologica Scripta 32, 56-69. Dzik, J., Ivantsov, A.Yu., & Deulin, Y.V...
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