The earliest annelids: Lower Cambrian polychaetes from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Peary Land

• Main Authors: North Greenland, Simon Conway Morris, John S. Peel
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Key words; Annelida; Polychaeta; Phagmochaeta; metazoan evolution; Cambrian; Sirius Passet Lagerstätte; Greenland; Burgess; Peary; Peary Land; Sirius; North Greenland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.473.4969

Apart from the Phyllopod Bed of the Burgess Shale (Middle Cambrian) polychaete annelids are practically unknown from any of the Cambrian Lagerstätten. This is surprising both because their diversity in the Burgess Shale is considerable, while to date the Chengjiang Lagerstätte which is equally impre...