The special body plan of Yunnanozoon is almost identical to that of the living enteropneust hemichordate Balanoglossus,which suggests that the earlyCambrian creature is ancestral to the hemichordates.
这种独特型与现生肠鳃类半索动物几无二致,从而表明这早寒武世动物是地球上半索动物门中已知最古先类型。