Margaretia Temporal range:
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Reconstruction of M. dorus as organic tube that is associated with Oesia disjuncta | |
Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †
Margaretia Walcott, 1931 |
Species: | †M. dorus
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Binomial name | |
†Margaretia dorus Walcott, 1931
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Margaretia is a frondose organism known from the middle Cambrian Burgess shale and the Kinzers Formation of Pennsylvania. [1] Its fronds reached about 10 cm in length and are peppered with a range of length-parallel oval holes. It was originally interpreted as an alcyonarian coral. [2] It was later reclassified as a green alga closely resembling modern Caulerpa by D.F. Satterthwait in her Ph.D. thesis in 1976, [3] a finding supported by Conway Morris and Robison in 1988. [2] More recently, it has been treated as an organic tube, that is used as nest of hemichordate Oesia. [4]
Margaretia Temporal range:
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Reconstruction of M. dorus as organic tube that is associated with Oesia disjuncta | |
Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †
Margaretia Walcott, 1931 |
Species: | †M. dorus
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Binomial name | |
†Margaretia dorus Walcott, 1931
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Margaretia is a frondose organism known from the middle Cambrian Burgess shale and the Kinzers Formation of Pennsylvania. [1] Its fronds reached about 10 cm in length and are peppered with a range of length-parallel oval holes. It was originally interpreted as an alcyonarian coral. [2] It was later reclassified as a green alga closely resembling modern Caulerpa by D.F. Satterthwait in her Ph.D. thesis in 1976, [3] a finding supported by Conway Morris and Robison in 1988. [2] More recently, it has been treated as an organic tube, that is used as nest of hemichordate Oesia. [4]