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

• Main Authors: Conway Morris, S., Peel, J. S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: 04 - Palaeobiology; Burgess; Greenland; Peary; Peary Land; Sirius; North Greenland
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/926/; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/926/1/Conway_Morris_Acta_Pal_Polonica_53_1_2008.pdf; http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app53/app53-137.pdf

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...