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Brock New evolutionary and ecological advances in deciphering the Cambrian explosion of animal life 3 Jian Han, Guoxiang Li, Xing Wang, Xiaoguang Yang, Junfeng Guo, Osamu Sasaki, and Tsuyoshi Komiya Olivooides-like tube aperture in early Cambrian carinachitids (Medusozoa, Cnidaria) 14 Huaqiao Zhang, Andreas Maas, and Dieter Waloszek New material of scalidophoran worms in Orsten-type preservation from the Cambrian Fortunian Stage of South China 26 Shixue Hu, Bernd-D. Erdtmann,