I fully agree with you about what most paleontologists think and actually,
for something like cycliophora which is small, it probably has been around
for a long time. But my point is that one can not assume evidence where
none exists. My belief or your belief is not evidence. Why would it be
strange for a new phyla to arise? Is there some a priori law that says that
new phyla can't arise? All we really have is the fossil record not a law.
With plants, a number of phyla have arisen over the past 550 million years.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm
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