Annelida

GRI #633

• Annelids are segmented worms, of which the common earthworm is the most familiar example.

• This unidentified species is from the Wheeler Shale of Utah.

• The sea contains many kinds of marine annelids, and many of them are predators of small creatures.

• They usually have short tentacles and two to four pairs of eyes.

• Not much is known of this particular fossil animal, but it likely crawled along the seafloor or lived in a burrow and captured smaller animals for food.