Emeraldella
| Emeraldella brocki Temporal range: Burgess Shale | |
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| 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]
External links
- "Emeraldella brocki". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.
- http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Cambrian-Explosion/Emeraldella/Emeraldella.htm
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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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