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Nature 438, 296 (17 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/438296a; Published online 16 November 2005

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Palaeontology: Data on a plate

Henry Gee

The weird fossil pictured here is a specimen of Ceratocystis — a member of an ancient group of animals, the Stylophora, that lived roughly 500 million to 300 million years ago. Stylophorans, which were just centimetres in length, bear little resemblance to any extant animal and have defied categorization for decades.

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