Tamisiocaris
| Tamisiocaris borealis Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3 | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Class: | † Dinocaridida |
| Order: | † Radiodonta (?) |
| Genus: | † Tamisiocaris Daley & Peel, 2010 |
| Species: | † T. borealis |
| Binomial name | |
| Tamisiocaris borealis Daley & Peel, 2010 | |
Tamisiocaris (see latin tamisium, sieve) is an anomalocaridid taxon initially only known from non-segmented great appendages from Sirius Passet. [1] Further specimens revealed that the appendages near their mouths were adapted to filter feed in a manner analogous to modern baleen whales.[2]
References
- ↑ Allison C. Daley & John S. Peel (2010). "A possible anomalocaridid from the Cambrian Sirius Passet lagerstätte, North Greenland". Journal of Paleontology 84 (2): 352–355. doi:10.1666/09-136R1.1.
- ↑ Jakob Vinther, Martin Stein, Nicholas R. Longrich & David A. T. Harper (2014). "A suspension-feeding anomalocarid from the Early Cambrian". Nature 501: 496–499. doi:10.1038/nature13010.
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