Artist's reconstruction of Gangtoucunia aspera (IMAGE)

University of Oxford

Artist's reconstruction of Gangtoucunia aspera

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Caption: Artist's reconstruction of Gangtoucunia aspera as it would have appeared in life on the Cambrian seafloor, circa 514 million years ago. The individual in the foreground has part of the skeleton removed to show the soft polyp inside the skeleton. Reconstruction by Xiaodong Wang.

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Reconstruction by Xiaodong Wang.

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