Communications Biology (Mar 2021)

A potential cephalopod from the early Cambrian of eastern Newfoundland, Canada

  • Anne Hildenbrand,
  • Gregor Austermann,
  • Dirk Fuchs,
  • Peter Bengtson,
  • Wolfgang Stinnesbeck

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01885-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Hildenbrand, Austermann et al. present new material from the early Cambrian of Newfoundland that potentially backdates the evolution of cephalopods to before euarthropods. The material is most closely aligned with the Cephalopoda, lending a tentative assignment and significant potential implications for the origin of this molluscan group.