BEIJING, Feb 14 (APP) :Chinese archaeologists have found a fossilized body of an octoradiate spiral organism dating back 580 million years in the southwestern part of the country, the Guangming Daily reported.
The creature in question would have been a multicellular animal.
The fossil was found in Wenghui village, Jiangkou County, in southwest Guizhou Province.
It was jointly confirmed as an octoradiate spiral organism by a research team under the Institute of Geology of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and an expert from Switzerland’s National Museum of Natural Sciences.
The fossil is 3 centimeters in diameter and is said to be a 580 million-year-old multicellular animal that belonged to the Sinian Period(800 million years to 570 million years ago).
The new finding will be discussed in the first edition of Acta Geological Sinica 2008.