Biota of China. Nectocaris was a free-swimming, predatory or scavenging organism. This lifestyle is reflected in its binomial name: Nectocaris means "swimming...

and Nectocaris which revealed them to be related to chaetognaths (arrow worms), in particular the superficially similar Timorebestia. Nectocaris Nectocotis...

history, but been reinterpreted on the basis of additional material. Nectocaris pteryx was previously described from poorly preserved specimen and considered...

State. It was originally described as a nectocaridid, differing from Nectocaris in the possession of an internal skeletal element, and this character...

that is a chimerical fossil. In 2010, some researchers proposed that Nectocaris pteryx is the early cephalopod, which did not have a shell and appeared...

Volborthella's classification is uncertain. The Middle Cambrian fossil Nectocaris was interpreted as a cephalopod with 2 arms and no shell by some researchers...

Silurian. It has been hypothesized that the Early–Middle Cambrian fossil Nectocaris represents a coleoid (or other cephalopod) that lost its shell, possibly...

Cambrian fossil organisms were noted. Chen et al. suggested similarities to Nectocaris pteryx. Others pointed to a general resemblance between Tullimonstrum...

vetulicolian; free-swimming arthropods like isoxyids and hymenocarines; Nectocaris). Bicknell et al. (2023) examined the frontal appendages of Anomalocaris...

this genus may be closely related to members of the Ediacaran biota. Nectocaris Lophotrochozoa (?) Family Nectocarididae Walcott Quarry Raymond Quarry...

Metaspriggina, a primitive fish. Several animals–Odontogriphus, Wiwaxia, Nectocaris, and Hallucigenia–had previously been regarded as new phyla by Stephen...

related to molluscs or to polychaete worms. For many years only one fossil Nectocaris was known, poorly preserved and without a counterpart. This fossil was...

crusticeps Macrocephalus M. elongates Petalilium P. latus Possible synonym of Nectocaris pteryx Parvulonoda P. dubia Phacatrum P. tubifer Phasangula P. striata...

in 2025. Nektognathus shares features with both the formerly enigmatic Nectocaris with the stem-chaetognath Timorebestia, suggesting they are closely related...

pp. 237. ISBN 978-0-521-45625-8. e.g. Conway Morris, Simon (1976). " Nectocaris pteryx, a new organism from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British...

(Katian) Whetstone Gulf Formation United States ( New York) A relative of Nectocaris; an animal of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a stem-cephalopod...