Cambrorhytium

Cambrorhytium
Temporal range: Chengjiang - Burgess Shale
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Order: †Conulatae
Clade: †Conulariida
Genus: †Cambrorhytium
(Walcott 1908) Conway Morris and Robison, 1988[1]
Species
  • C. elongatum
  • C. fragilis Walcott 1911
  • C. gracilis Chang et al. 2018
  • C. major Walcott 1908 (type)

Cambrorhytium is an enigmatic fossil genus known from the Latham Shale (California),[2] and the Chengjiang (China) and Burgess Shale (Canadian rockies) lagerstätte.[3] 350 specimens of Cambrorhytium are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.7% of the community.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference SCM1988 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  3. ^ Zhang, X. L.; Hua, H. (2005). "Soft-bodied fossils from the Shipai Formation, Lower Cambrian of the Three Gorge area, South China". Geological Magazine. 142 (6): 699. Bibcode:2005GeoM..142..699Z. doi:10.1017/S0016756805000518. S2CID 129323140.
  4. ^ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. Bibcode:2006Palai..21..451C. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022. S2CID 53646959.