The Lower-Middle Cambrian animal ''Rhabdotubus'' is the earliest known
pterobranch. It bears strong similarity to the
graptolite
Graptolites are a group of colonial animals, members of the subclass Graptolithina within the class Pterobranchia. These filter-feeding organisms are known chiefly from fossils found from the Middle Cambrian ( Miaolingian, Wuliuan) through t ...
s - indeed for some time it was misclassified as a dendroid graptolite.
References
Cambrian invertebrates
Prehistoric hemichordate genera
Fossils of Sweden
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