History of Discovery
Charles Doolittle Walcott found one specimen during one of his field trips to the Burgess Shale between 1910 and 1917. In the 1970s Simon Conway Morris re-examined the specimen and tentatively concluded that it was a swimming lophophorate, in other words related to the ancestors of molluscs, annelid worms and brachiopods. In 2006 Caron, Scheltema et al. published a new analysis based on 189 recently collected specimens, all from the Burgess Shale.
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