Helmetia
Helmetia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Stem group: | Chelicerata |
Order: | †Helmetiida |
Family: | †Helmetiidae |
Genus: | †Helmetia |
Species: | †H. expansa |
Binomial name | |
Helmetia expansa Walcott, 1918 | |
Helmetia is an extinct genus of arthropod from the Cambrian. Its fossils have been found in the Burgess Shale and the Czech Republic.[1]
It is interpreted as a nektonic suspension feeder.[2]
References
- ↑ Kordule Chlupáč (2002). "Arthropods of Burgess Shale type from the Middle Cambrian of Bohemia (Czech Republic)". Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey. 77: 167–182.
- ↑ CARON, J.-B. and JACKSON, D. A. 2008. Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 258, 222–256.
Further reading
- Stephen Jay Gould (1989). Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. W. W. Norton & Company.
- Xian-Guang Hou, Richard J. Aldridge, Jan Bergström, David J. Siveter, Derek J. Siveter & Feng Xiang-Hong (2004). The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China: The Flowering of Early Animal Life. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-0673-3.
External links
- "Helmetia expansa". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.
- Helmetia in the Paleobiology Database
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