The newly discovered species was part of the phylum annelid, which is made up of segmented worms.
A newfound, 500-million-year-old fossilized sea worm has been unearthed in northern Utah. This ancient worm would have glided through the ocean during the Cambrian period , which was marked by a surge of new life on Earth sometimes dubbed the"Cambrian explosion."
"I'm a big ol' nerd and at the time I was getting really excited for the 'Dune' movies," Rhiannon LaVine, the researcher who made the discovery, said in a statement. "I split open one of these pieces of rock and instantly knew it was something that wasn't typical," LaVine, a research associate with the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, said in the statement."The first thing we see are these radial blades that look like stars or flowers," she said.
"Annelids are very rare in the Cambrian of North America, and so far we only knew of a single specimen from the Spence Shale," study lead author Julien Kimmig, a paleontologist with the State Museum of Natural History in Germany, said in the statement.
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