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Tommotiids are an
extinct group of
Cambrian invertebrates thought to be
early lophophorates (the
group containing Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, and Phoronida)...
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grounds they have been ****essed as deuterostomes.
Fossil finds of the "
tommotiid"
Wufengella suggest that they
evolved from worm-like
animals that resembled...
- 2007 and 2008
showed that the "chain mail" of
tommotiids formed the tube of a
sessile animal; one
tommotiid resembled phoronids,
which are
close relatives...
- Ailin; Hou, Xianguang; Chen, Taimin; Cong,
Peiyun (2022). "A
Cambrian tommotiid preserving soft
tissues reveals the
metameric ancestry of lophophorates"...
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Wufengella is a
genus of
extinct camenellan "
tommotiid" that
lived during the
Early Cambrian (Stage 3).
Described in 2022, the only
species Wufengella...
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elements of
unknown animals, the
first archaeocyathids, brachiopods,
tommotiids and others. Also soft-bodied
extant phyla such as comb jellies, scalidophorans...
- Ailin; Hou, Xianguang; Chen, Taimin; Cong,
Peiyun (2022). "A
Cambrian tommotiid preserving soft
tissues reveals the
metameric ancestry of lophophorates"...
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Cambrian of
South Australia:
Lophophorate affinities and
implications for
tommotiid phylogeny". Geology. 36 (2): 171–174. Bibcode:2008Geo....36..171S. doi:10...
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Sunnaginia is a
tommotiid known from the
Comely Limestone and elsewhere, and
appears to
represent one of the
closest relatives to the
brachiopod crown...
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Wufengella and Lapwort****a, are a (probably monophyletic)
group of
Tommotiid invertebrates from the
Cambrian period,
reconstructed as
sister to all...
