Emeraldella

Emeraldella brocki
Temporal range: Burgess Shale
Emeraldella brocki
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
(unranked): Artiopoda
Genus: Emeraldella
Species:  E. brocki
Binomial name
Emeraldella brocki
Walcott, 1912

Emeraldella is a genus of artiopod arthropod known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.[1] 21 specimens of Emeraldella are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise < 0.1% of the community.[2]

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References

  1. Stein, M.; Selden, P. A. (2011). "A restudy of the Burgess Shale (Cambrian) arthropod Emeraldella brocki and reassessment of its affinities". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology: 1–23. doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.566634.
  2. Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022.
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