The strange creature belongs to an obscure and mysterious group of animals called the chancelloriids and scientist are unclear about where they fit in the tree of life.
Researchers say they represent a lineage of spiny tube-shaped animals that arose during the cambrian evolutionary explosion but later went extinct.
They look like sponges in some way, a group of simple filter-feeding animals, but lots of scientist have dismissed the similarities as superficial. The new fossile suggests the ancient creatures are in fact close relatives of the sponges based on its body growth pattern.
The new species named Allonnia nuda, due to its fleshy appearance was discovered in the Chengjiang deposits of Yunnan Province, China. It was large in life measuring up to 20 inches (50cm) or more but had only a few tiny spines.
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