An enigmatic chordate from the Lower Carboniferous Granton ‘shrimp-bed’ of the Edinburgh district, Scotland

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Abstract
A new soft-bodied chordate, Conopiscius clarki gen. et sp. nov., with V-shaped scales covering the trunk, and pair of cone-shaped structures in the head, is described from the Lower Carboniferous of Granton, Edinburgh. It occurs in the ''shrimp-bed'' which, although dominated by eumalacostracan crustaceans, has also yielded exceptionally perserved examples of other taxa including the soft parts of conodonts. The new animal may represent a jawless craniate with affinities to Jamoytius. The parallels between this and other fuanas yielding similar chordates (e.g. Jamoytius) may be taphonomic rather than environmental.