Pikaia gracilens. Creature of the Cambrian Explosion.
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Pikaia Lodge by Relais & Chateaux
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.