Cambrian Fossil Animal Genera is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers genera of soft-bodied and early animals known only from fossils of the Cambrian period, such as the squid-like Nectocaris and the worm-like Amiskwia and Myoscolex from the Burgess Shale and related sites. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that the genus is known from the Cambrian. It excludes arthropod genera placed in a named arthropod group and fossils from other periods. These animals lived more than 500 million years ago, soon after complex animal life appeared, and are known from rare fossils that preserve soft tissue, so their place on the animal family tree has often been argued over.
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Wikipedia: Nectocaris
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Nectocaris is a genus of squid-like animal known from the Cambrian period.
Wikipedia: Amiskwia
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Amiskwia is a genus of soft-bodied marine animals known from fossils of the Middle Cambrian Lagerstätten both in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada and the Maotianshan shales of Yunnan Province, China.
Wikipedia: Myoscolex
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Myoscolex is an early animal known from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale in South Australia.
Inquicus (Wikipedia)
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Inquicus fellatus is an extinct, bowling pin-shaped gnathiferan worm from the Chengjiang Biota, in what was once a marine environment from the Early Cambrian Yunnan province.
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