Oesia
Oesia disjuncta is a monospecific genus of hemichordate known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.[1] 1147 specimens of Oesia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 2.18% of the community.[2] It was previously compared to the chaetognaths.[3]
Oesia Temporal range: | |
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Reconstruction of Oesia living in organic tube Margaretia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Hemichordata |
Genus: | †Oesia Walcott, 1911 |
Species: | †O. disjuncta |
Binomial name | |
†Oesia disjuncta Walcott, 1911 | |
References
- Nanglu, K.; Caron, J.; Conway Morris, S.; Cameron, C. (2016). "Cambrian suspension-feeding tubicolous hemichordates". BMC Biology. 14 (56). doi:10.1186/s12915-016-0271-4. PMC 4936055. PMID 27383414.
- 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.
- Szaniawski, H. (2009). "Fossil Chaetognaths from the Burgess Shale: A Reply to Conway Morris (2009)". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 54 (2): 361–364. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0030.
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