Namibian rangeomorph

Those of us particularly fond of dinosaurs, or even more broadly vertebrate palaeontology, were puzzled a few years ago when dig volunteer David Elliot and scientist Pat Vickers-Rich started spending their time looking at the soft-bodied animals of the pre-Cambrian.  But those animals have turned out complex and very pretty indeed.  Check out the Peter Trusler reconstuction on the cover of the Jounal of Vertebrate Paleontology http://www.psjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1666/12-074R.1.