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Artist's impression of what Cardiodictyon catenulum may have looked like in real life: a wormlike creature crawling on the seafloor. Nicholas Strausfeld Artist's impression of an individual 525-million-year-old Cardiodictyon catenulum on the shallow coastal sea floor, emerging from the shelter of a small stromatolite, rock-like structures built by microorganisms that were common at the time.