The single specimen has features suggesting it may be a juvenile. The fossil differs from living hagfish enough for it to be placed in a new genus. It is considered to be basically modern in its characteristics. The newly discovered hagfish does not show any characteristics of lampreys or other groups, showing that the hagfish group was separate and distinct at the time the organism was living. Gribin, J. 1991.
Rocks reveal world's oldest mollusc.
They are commonly found attached to rocks in the ocean. A chiton has been found in lower Cambrian deposits on the Yorke Peninsula of South America. This earliest known fossil mollusc extends the record of chitons back from the upper Cambrian. Ramskold, L. and H. Xianguang. New early Cambrian animal and onychophoran affinities of enigmatic metazoans.