Oesia

Oesia disjuncta is a monospecific genus known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 1147 specimens of Oesia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 2.18% of the community.[1] Despite some similarities to the chaetognaths,[2] its affinity is unknown, though recent data suggest it may be affiliated with hemichordates.[3][4]

Oesia
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian
reconstructed as a hemichordate
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Genus:
Oesia
Species:
O. disjuncta
  • "Oesia disjuncta". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.

References

  1. 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.
  2. Szaniawski, H. (2009). "Fossil Chaetognaths from the Burgess Shale: A Reply to Conway Morris (2009)". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 54 (2): 361–364. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0030.
  3. Conway Morris, S. (2009). "The Burgess Shale AnimalOesiais not a Chaetognath: A Reply to Szaniawski (2005)". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 54: 175–179. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0120.
  4. Nanglu, Karma; Caron, Jean-Bernard; Conway Morris, Simon; Cameron, Christopher B. (2016). "Cambrian suspension-feeding tubicolous hemichordates". BMC Biology. 14 (56). doi:10.1186/s12915-016-0271-4. PMC 4936055. PMID 27383414.


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