Protechiurus

Proteciurus is a fossil from the Ediacaran Nama group. It was initially interpreted as an echiurid worm.[1] It has been placed as a "vendobiont", on the hypothesis that the Edicarian fauna represent a distinct phylum.[2] It has also been suggested that it may be an ecdysozoan.[3]

See also

List of Ediacaran genera

References
  1. Glaessner, M. F. (1979). "An echiurid worm from the Late Precambrian". Lethaia. 12 (2): 121–124. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1979.tb00991.x.
  2. Buss, L. W.; Seilacher, A. (1994). "The Phylum Vendobionta: A Sister Group of the Eumetazoa?". Paleobiology. 20 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1017/S0094837300011088.
  3. Dzik, Jerzy (2003). "Anatomical Information Content in the Ediacaran Fossils and Their Possible Zoological Affinities". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 43 (1): 114–126. doi:10.1093/icb/43.1.114. PMID 21680416.
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