Another recent publication I'm slightly embarrassed to have missed. From the Ukraine, no less. Shallow-marine fossils no later than 557 Mya are described as tunicates. This moves the origin of Chordata well below the earliest Cambrian.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-021-00596-1
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