Sabellidites
Sign in to saveSabellidites is a genus of annelid from the Late Ediacaran and Early Cambrian periods. It is among the oldest annelid body fossils.
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Sabellidites is a genus of annelid from the Late Ediacaran and Early Cambrian periods. It is among the oldest annelid body fossils.
== Discovery == The holotype material of Sabellidites was discovered in the "Blue Clays" of the Lontova Formation, near Saint Petersburg in 1921, and named in 1926.
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