Myoscolex is an early animal known from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale in South Australia. It is of unknown affinity but has been interpreted as an annelid[1][2][3] and as an arthropod close to Opabinia.[4][5]Myoscolex is the earliest known example of phosphotized muscle tissue, and as to which shows distinct annulation.[5]
Myoscolex ateles was named by Glaessner in 1979.[5][1]
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^Glaessner, M.F. (1979-01-01). "Lower Cambrian Crustacea and annelid worms from Kangaroo Island, South Australia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 3 (1): 21–31. Bibcode:1979Alch....3...21G. doi:10.1080/03115517908565437. ISSN 0311-5518.
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^Briggs, D. E. G.; Nedin, C. (1997). "The Taphonomy and Affinities of the Problematic Fossil Myoscolex from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale of South Australia". Journal of Paleontology. 71 (1): 22–32. Bibcode:1997JPal...71...22B. doi:10.1017/S0022336000038919. JSTOR 1306537. S2CID 131851540.
^ abcJ. Paterson, J. Jago, J. Gehling, D. García-Bellido, G. Edgecombe, Msy Lee (2008). "Early Cambrian Arthropods from the Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte, South Australia" (PDF). Advances in Trilobite Research.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)"Archival copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 1, 2018.
Myoscolex is an early animal known from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale in South Australia. It is of unknown affinity but has been interpreted as an annelid...
more Opabiniids were discorvered. That being Utaurora, and Mieridduryn. Myoscolex from Emu Bay Shale is sometimes suggested to be an opabiniid, but morphological...
opabiniid, with the other being Opabinia itself. There are other animals like Myoscolex and Mieridduryn that could be opabiniids, but the classification of those...
and Nedin reported from South Australia Emu Bay Shale a new specimen of Myoscolex that was much better preserved than previous specimens, leading them to...
closely resembles the modern creature Branchiostoma. A fossil species Myoscolex ateles, discovered in 1979 from Cambrian Emu Bay shale of Kangaroo Island...
With the exclusion of questionable taxa (e.g. the putative opabiniid Myoscolex), the former were known only by Opabinia, while all radiodont species...
Burgess Shale, formed about 505 million years ago in the Middle Cambrian. Myoscolex, found in Australia and a little older than the Burgess Shale, was possibly...
Kangacaris zhangi), the palaeoscolecid worm Wronascolex, the problematic Myoscolex and Vetustovermis, and a number of rarer elements. The Big Gully trilobites...
556-574 Dzik, J. 2004. Anatomy and relationships of the Early Cambrian worm Myoscolex. Zoologica Scripta 32, 56-69. Dzik, J., Ivantsov, A.Yu., & Deulin, Y.V...
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