Priscansermarinus
| Priscansermarinus Temporal range: Burgess Shale | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Maxillopoda |
| Infraclass: | Cirripedia |
| Order: | Pedunculata |
| Infraorder: | Lepadomorpha |
| Family: | Cyprilepadidae |
| Genus: | Priscansermarinus Collins & Rudkin, 1981 |
| Species: | P. barnetti |
| Binomial name | |
| Priscansermarinus barnetti Collins & Rudkin, 1981 | |
Priscansermarinus barnetti is an organism known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, which probably represents a species of lepadomorph barnacle.[1] Four specimens of P. barnetti are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed.[2]
External links
- "Priscansermarinus barnetti". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.
References
- ↑ Desmond Collins & David M. Rudkin (1981). "Priscansermarinus barnetti, a probable lepadomorph barnacle from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia". Journal of Paleontology 55 (5): 1006–1015.
- ↑ J. B. Caron & D. A. Jackson (2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". Palaios 21 (5): 451–465. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R.
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