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Functional morphology of the Ediacaran organism Tribrachidium heraldicum

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Abstract

Tribrachidium heraldicum is among the first large and structurally complex animals, appearing in the fossil record 550 million years ago. By using engineering software to simulate fluid flow around digital models of this organism we recreate details of how it lived, including how it fed and the likely functions of its bizarre anatomy.