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|fossil_range = {{fossil range|Ediacaran}}
|genus = Wutubus
|parent_authority = Zhe Chen, Chuanming Zhou, Shuhai Xiao, Wei Wang, Chengguo Guan, Hong Hua, and Xunlai Yuan, 2014
|species = annularis
|authority = Zhe Chen, Chuanming Zhou, Shuhai Xiao, Wei Wang, Chengguo Guan, Hong Hua, and Xunlai Yuan, 2014
}}
{{Onesource|article|date=December 2020}}

'''''Wutubus annularis''''' is a tubular [[Earth:Ediacaran|Ediacaran]] fossil from {{wipe|China}}.<ref name=pmid24566959>{{cite journal |last1=Chen |first1=Zhe |last2=Zhou |first2=Chuanming |last3=Xiao |first3=Shuhai |last4=Wang |first4=Wei |last5=Guan |first5=Chengguo |last6=Hua |first6=Hong |last7=Yuan |first7=Xunlai |title=New Ediacara fossils preserved in marine limestone and their ecological implications |journal=Scientific Reports |date=May 2015 |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=4180 |doi=10.1038/srep04180 |pmid=24566959 |pmc=3933909 |bibcode=2014NatSR...4E4180C }}</ref>  It is the only species in the genus '''''Wutubus'''''. The genus name was derived from the fossil locality near the village of Wuhe (Wu River) and from Latin tubus (tube), and  the species epithet derived from Latin, annularis, with reference to the transverse annulae on the tube.<ref name=pmid24566959/>

The first described specimens of ''Wutubus annularis'' were found in the Shibantan Member of the [[Earth:Dengying Formation|Dengying Formation]] in the Yangtze Gorges area of South China, which dates to 551-541 Mya during the late Ediacaran.<ref name="pmid24566959" /> Specimens have since been reported in the late Ediacaran Deep Spring Formation at Mount Dunfee, Navada (USA).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=E.F. |last2=Nelson |first2=L.L. |last3=Strange |first3=M.A. |last4=Eyster |first4=A.E. |last5=Rowland |first5=S.M. |last6=Schrag |first6=D.P. |last7=Macdonald |first7=F.A. |date=2016 |title=The end of the Ediacaran: Two new exceptionally preserved body fossil assemblages from Mount Dunfee, Nevada, USA |url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/geology/article/44/11/911-914/195087 |journal=Geology |language=en |volume=44 |issue=11 |pages=911–914 |doi=10.1130/G38157.1 |issn=0091-7613}}</ref>

''Wutubus annularis'' is an annulated (ringed) tubular organism 20-180 mm in length and 3-32 mm in width. It is mostly cylindrical, with a conical end that tapers to an apex. It has been reconstructed as a benthic tubular organism living on the sediment surface, tethered to the substrate by its apex.<ref name="pmid24566959" />

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[[Category:Ediacaran life]]
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