Metaspriggina
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metaspriggina-178-2228857
title:
Metaspriggina
text:
Metaspriggina is a genus of chordate initially known from two specimens in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and 44 specimens found in 2012 at the Marble Canyon bed in Kootenay National Park. Whilst named after the Ediacaran organism Spriggina, later work has shown the two to be unrelated. Metaspriggina is considered to represent a primitive chordate, possibly transitional between cephalochordates and the earliest vertebrates, albeit this has been questioned because it seems to possess most of t
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Cambrian fossil genus of chordate
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaspriggina
date created:
2008-07-04T15:47:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T21:07:13Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Metaspriggina_NT_small.jpg","width":600,"height":450}
fields total:
13
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16