- Ediacaran, periods. As of 2023, the
majority of
workers favor placing Vetulicolians in the stem
group of the Chordata, but some
continue to
favor a more...
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extinct vetulicolian from the Late Botomian-aged Emu Bay
Shale Lagerstätte in
Kangaroo Island, Australia. So far, it is the
fourth described vetulicolian that...
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largest known vetulicolian, an
extinct species of
marine animal, with
specimens up to 20 cm in
length compared to 5–14 cm for
other vetulicolian species. The...
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Marjum lagerstätte of Utah. It has been
classified with the
banffozoan vetulicolians. Skeemella,
which was
first described in 2005, is
diagnosed as having...
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Vetulocystida would represent the
transition from the body plan of the
vetulicolians to one of the echinoderms, as
shown by the
following cladogram simplified...
- A.
velamenus demonstrates some
anatomical characters reminiscent of
vetulicolians,
predating the
first undisputed member of this
clade by 20
million years...
-
majority of
workers have come to see the
vetulicolians as stem chordates, and a 2024
study placed vetulicolians as a
basal chordate evolutionary grade,...
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Didazoonidae is a
vetulicolian family within the
order Vetulicolata. It is
characterized by a
relatively thin-walled, non-biomineralized body and a large...
- more
recently been
placed with the
Banffiidae (if it is a
banffozoan or
vetulicolian at all).
Banffozoa may be
paraphyletic even if
Vetulicolia is monophyletic...
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Pomatrum is an
extinct vetulicolian, the
senior synonym of Xidazoon; the
latter taxon was
described by Shu, et al. (1999)
based on
fossils found in the...
