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    Banffia is a genus of animals described from Middle Cambrian fossils. The genus commemorates Banff, Alberta, near where the first fossil specimens were...
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    not been formally described or assigned to Heteromorphus itself. Like Banffia, Heteromorphus has a two-part body with a notable constriction between...
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    genus Banffia due to its similar two-part construction, as well as apparent gill slits in a newly discovered specimen. Further work split Banffia into...
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    banffozoans such as Banffia or Heteromorphus. In 1997, Chen and Zhou defined Vetulicolida as a class to contain Vetulicola and Banffia. Hou and Bergström...
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    protostomes than to deuterostomes, even if the Vetulicolida are deuterostomes. Banffia shows no sign of gill openings, and potential gill openings in Heteromorphus...
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    Banffia† Heteromorphus†...
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    Banffia† Heteromorphus†...
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    America and China. The family name is sometimes spelt Banffidae. It includes Banffia, Heteromorphus, and possibly Skeemella. The family may be paraphyletic...
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    Banffia† Heteromorphus†...
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    Vetulicola† Pomatrum† / Xidazoon† Didazoon† Beidazoon† Yuyuanozoon† Banffia† Heteromorphus† Ooedigera† Nesonektris†...
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    Banffia† Heteromorphus†...
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    Vetulicola† "Vetulicolidae" Beidazoon† Ooedigera† Pomatrum† / Xidazoon† Didazoon† Yuyuanozoon† Banffia† Heteromorphus† Nesonektris†...
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    Didazoonids. Heteromorphus is more closely related to Banffia from the Burgess Shale, but both it and Banffia are also considered to be vetulicolians. Originally...
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    Banffia† Heteromorphus†...
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    Banffia† Heteromorphus†...
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    Banffiidae Banffia Heteromorphus Skeemella...
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    Maotianshan Shales (the other three being Ooedigera of Sirius Passet, Banffia of the Burgess Shale, and Skeemella of the Pierson Cove Formation above...
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    Banffiidae Banffia Heteromorphus Skeemella...
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    Incertae sedis Genus Phylum Class Locality of Origin Notes Images Banffia Vetulicolia Heteromorphida Raymond Quarry Collins Quarry This bizarre deuterostome...
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    expelling water using the mouth and gills respectively. However, Vetulicola, Banffia, and Pomatrum have remains of sediments in the gut, which is either evidence...
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    Chengjian fossils. Among the new species they identified was Banffia confusa. The genus Banffia was created by American palaeontologist Charles Doolittle...
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    Wronascolex? Acinocricus Hallucigenia Brooksella? Protospongia Vauxia Banffia Eldonia Siphusauctum Marpolia Morania Archaeonassa Arenicolites  Aulichnites...
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    Lyon in 1999. His thesis focused on the problematic Burgess Shale animal Banffia constricta. Jean-Bernard Caron volunteered as a field assistant at the...
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    spinifera Selkirkia tubes Metaspriggina walcotti (235 specimens as 2020) Banffia Oesia disjuncta (Margaretia dorus) (3373 specimens as 2020) Kootenayscolex...
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    Cambroernida. Yunnanozoon Possible stem-group Deuterostome Banffia Possible stem-group Deuterostome Banffia is a member of the clade Vetulicolia, which may belong...
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    A study on the slab with a dense aggregation of members of the species Banffia constricta recovered from the Cambrian Burgess Shale (Canada) and its implications...
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  • demosponge. Banffia episoma Sp. nov Valid Conway Morris et al. Cambrian Spence Shale  United States An early deuterostome, a species of Banffia. Carterina...
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