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Re: paleonet Discovery of Oldest Vertebrate Fossil Claimed in South Australia



William Douglas Boyce wrote:
> 
> Dear Robert,
> 
> You may be right. If the photograph is rotated by 180 degrees, the
> fossil looks more like a sideways scrunched Charnia frond above its
> holdfast.

The thing's a scrunched Kimberella. Oddly scrunched, I'll
grant you, but every feature on that fossil is within the
bounds of what we see over the range of Kimberella specimens.
I'd bet my firstborn child on it.

--
Ben Waggoner