Palaeoscolecid (IMAGE)

University of Missouri-Columbia

Palaeoscolecid

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Researchers at the University of Missouri have found a rare, 500-million-year-old “worm-like” fossil called a palaeoscolecid, which is an uncommon fossil group in North America.

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University of Missouri

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