Insolicorypha
Insolicorypha is a genus of polychaetes known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. A single specimen of Insolicorypha is known from the Greater Phyllopod bed.[1] The genus was described by Conway Morris (1979)[2] and re-examined by Eibye-Jacobsen (2004).[3]
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| Holotype specimen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Class: | Polychaeta |
| Family: | †Insolicoryphidae Conway Morris, 1979 |
| Genus: | †Insolicorypha Conway Morris, 1979 |
| Species: | †I. psygma |
| Binomial name | |
| †Insolicorypha psygma Conway Morris, 1979 | |
References
- Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. Bibcode:2006Palai..21..451C. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022. S2CID 53646959.
- Conway Morris, S. (1979). "Middle Cambrian Polychaetes from the Burgess Shale of British Columbia". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 285 (1007): 227–274. Bibcode:1979RSPTB.285..227M. doi:10.1098/rstb.1979.0006. JSTOR 2418139.
- Eibye-Jacobsen, D. (2004). "A reevaluation of Wiwaxia and the polychaetes of the Burgess Shale". Lethaia. 37 (3): 317–335. doi:10.1080/00241160410002027.
External links
- "Insolicorypha psygma". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2023-01-21.
- Photograph of fossil (lo res)
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