not thought to be monophyletic. Recent research has suggested that chancellorids represent an independent group of basal eumetazoans. Chancelloriid fossils...

non-applicable Chancelloriidae Many of the areas of the shale A genus of chancellorid known from the Burgess Shale and earlier deposits, and originally described...

while chancellorid sclerites are hollow and filled with soft tissues connected to the rest of the animal at the bases of the sclerites; chancellorid sclerites...

closely related to sponges on the grounds that the detailed structure of chancellorid sclerites ("armor plates") is similar to that of fibers of spongin, a...

Lenica L. unica, L. rigbyi Hexactinellid sponge Archiasterella A. sp Chancellorid Wapkia W. petila Protomonaxonid sponge Cambrorhytium C. minor Indeterminate...

Janussen, Steiner and Zhu (2002) denied that chancellorids were sponges on the grounds that: chancellorids' hollow sclerites, probably made of aragonite...

coeloscleritophorans: the sachitids, to which Halkieria and Wiwaxia belong, and the chancellorids. The Ediacaran fossil Ausia has been touted as an ancestral 'intermediate'...

Brachiopods (lamp shells) are moderately common within the Tulip Beds. The Chancellorids (an extinct group of enigmatic sponge-like animals covered in hollow...

Gordia (not to be confused with the Gordian worms), as well as Naraoia, chancellorids, Microdictyon, Wiwaxia, and Marrella. Furthermore, the possible moss...