Anabarites

Anabarites Temporal range: lower Cambrian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	incertae sedis (Trilobozoa)
Class:	Angustiochreida Valkov & Syssoiev, 1970
Family:	Anabaritidae Glaessner, 1979
Genus:	Anabarites Missarzhevsky, 1969

Anabarites is a problematic lower Cambrian genus, and is one of the small shelly fossils. It was abundant in the early Tommotian and is also found in the Nemakit-Daldynian.^[1] The fossils represent the triradially symmetrical mineralised tube in which the organism dwelt; it was sedentary.^[2] It is named after the Anabar region in Yakutia, Russia; its name does not imply 'heavy'.^[3]

Further reading

For images, see Matthews, S. C.; Missarzhevsky, V. V. (1975). "Small shelly fossils of late Precambrian and early Cambrian age: a review of recent work". Journal of the Geological Society 131 (3): 289–283. doi:10.1144/gsjgs.131.3.0289.

Artem Kouchinsky, Stefan Bengtson (2002). "The tube wall of Cambrian anabaritids". Acta Palaeontol. Pol. 47 (3): 431–444.

References

1. Felitsyn, S. B.; Gubanov, A. P. (2002). "Nd isotope composition of early Cambrian discrete basins". Geological Magazine 139 (2). doi:10.1017/S0016756801006252.
2. Yi, Q.; Bengtson, S. (1989). "FOSSILS AND STRATA Shards of the Cambrian explosion". Lethaia 22 (3): 270–270. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1989.tb01341.x.
3. Matthews, S. C.; Missarzhevsky, V. V. (1975). "Small shelly fossils of late Precambrian and early Cambrian age: a review of recent work". Journal of the Geological Society 131 (3): 289–283. doi:10.1144/gsjgs.131.3.0289.