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Pikaia

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Pikaia gracilens - middle Cambrian basal chordate.

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Pikaia gracilens. Creature of the Cambrian Explosion.

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Pikaia gracilens is an extinct cephalochordate animal known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Sixteen specimens are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprised 0.03% of the community. It resembled the lancelet and perhaps swam much like an eel.
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