Could Hallucigenia be the echinoderm missing link?

Now that’s clearly a chordate, I’d hesitate to go much further without a complete skeleton. Those ‘non-ribs’ in the rear half(?) don’t have any analogues that I’m aware of, despite that being an obvious vertebrate spinal column.

Isn’t it amazing how all space aliens have such eerily similar skeletal structures to our own? :wink: