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Odontogriphus

The fossil of Odontogriphus is not well preserved and few structures can be distingushed. This highly flattened, elongated, oval animal is about 2and half inches long , and marked behind its frontal region with a series of fine, transverse pallel lines,spaced about a millimeter apart. Odontogriphus was gelatinous. The mouth surrouded by tentacles and the pair of palps underside of the head.

Reference The Buggess Shale and the nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould (P147-148 ) .