Vetulicolidae
Appearance
Vetulicolidae Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3
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Vetulicola cuneata | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | †Vetulicolia |
Class: | †Vetulicolida |
Order: | †Vetulicolata |
Family: | †Vetulicolidae Hou, 1987[1] |
Type species | |
†Vetulicola cuneata Hou, 1987
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Genera | |
Vetulicolidae is an extinct family of Early Cambrian deuterostomes comprising two genera: Vetulicola and Ooedigera.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Hou, X.-G. (1987). "Early Cambrian large bivalved arthropods from Chengjiang, eastern Yunnan". Acta Palaeontologica Sinica (in Chinese). 26: 286–298.
- ^ Vinther, J.; Smith, M. P.; Harper, D. A. T. (2011). "Vetulicolians from the Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland, and the polarity of morphological characters in basal deuterostomes". Palaeontology. 54 (3): 711–719. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01034.x. S2CID 85602402.