Mickwitzia

Mickwitzia
Temporal range: Terreneuvian–mid Cambrian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: Brachiozoa
Stem group: Brachiopoda
Family: †Mickwitziidae
Goryanskii, 1969
Genus: †Mickwitzia
Schmidt, 1888
Species
  • M. monilifera (type) (Linnarsson, 1869)[1]
  • M. formosa (Wiman, 1902)
  • M. muralensis Walcott, 1913
  • M. lochmanae McMenamin, 1992
  • M. multipunctata McMenamin, 1992

Mickwitziids are a Cambrian group of shelly fossils with originally phosphatic valves, belonging to the Brachiopod stem group, and exemplified by the genus Mickwitzia – the other genera are Heliomedusa (a possible junior synonym of Mickwitzia?) and Setatella.[2] The family Mickwitziidae is conceivably paraphyletic with respect to certain crown-group brachiopods.[3]

  1. ^ Linnarsson, J. G. O. (1869). "IV.—On some Fossils found in the Eophyton Sandstone, at Lugnås, in Sweden" (PDF). Geological Magazine. 6 (63): 393–406. Bibcode:1869GeoM....6..393L. doi:10.1017/S0016756800162910. S2CID 129861881.
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  3. ^ "Organophosphatic bivalve stem-group brachiopods". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)