[Rockhounds] 520-million-year-old animal fossils might not be animals after all

[Paul]

520-million-year-old animal fossils might not be animals after all
The specimens may be an ancient type of algae, not creatures known as 
bryozoans
ScienceNews, MArch 10, 2023
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/520-million-year-old-animal-fossils

The paywalled paper is:

Yang, J., Lan, T., Zhang, X.G. and Smith, M.R., 2023.
Protomelission is an early dasyclad alga and not a
Cambrian bryozoan. Nature, published online, March 8, 2023 pp.1-5.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05775-5
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05775-5

Yours,

Paul H.