#Fossil of #Cambrian Long-Headed Chordate Unearthed in #Utah https://www.sci.news/paleontology/nuucichthys-rhynchocephalus-13130.html
A long-headed Cambrian soft-bodied vertebrate from the #AmericanGreatBasin region https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.240350
"#Nuucichthys rhynchocephalus swam in the Cambrian #oceans between 505 and 500 million years ago. It had a finless torpedo-shaped body that includes a number of markers characteristic of #vertebrates. It is one of only four species documenting the early evolutionary stage of vertebrate lineage."