Comments on: Ancient Australian Reef May Hold Fossils of Earliest Animal Life http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/09/25/ancient-australian-reef-may-hold-fossils-of-earliest-animal-life/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:21:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ian Caldwell http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/09/25/ancient-australian-reef-may-hold-fossils-of-earliest-animal-life/comment-page-1/#comment-15471 Ian Caldwell Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:58:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/09/25/ancient-australian-reef-may-hold-fossils-of-earliest-animal-life/#comment-15471 I am interested in finding out when the earliest coelenterate or annelid fossils occur, as I believe the hydra like creatures with only one opening would have preceded the annelids, with both a mouth and an anus and I am keen to have your opinion. I know that worm tracks are thought to have occurred as fossils before the 640 million year old mass extinction event which produced a frozen earth. Ian Caldwell FLS I am interested in finding out when the earliest coelenterate or annelid fossils occur, as I believe the hydra like creatures with only one opening would have preceded the annelids, with both a mouth and an anus and I am keen to have your opinion. I know that worm tracks are thought to have occurred as fossils before the 640 million year old mass extinction event which produced a frozen earth.

Ian Caldwell FLS

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