The special body plan of Yunnanozoon is almost identical to that of the living enteropneust hemichordate Balanoglossus,which suggests that the earlyCambrian creature is ancestral to the hemichordates.
这种独特的身体造型与现生肠鳃类半索动二致,从而表明这
早寒武世动
是
半索动
门中已知最古老的祖先类型。