Mongolitubulus

Mongolitubulus
Temporal range: Lower Cambrian–Early Middle Cambrian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Order: †Bradoriida
Genus: †Mongolitubulus
Missarzhevsky, 1977[2]
Species
  • M. decensus Betts et al., 2017
  • M. henrikseni Skovsted & Peel, 2001
  • M. squamifer Missarzhevsky, 1977 (type)
  • M. spinosus Hinz, 1987
  • M. unispinosa Topper et al., 2007[3]
  • M. reticulatus Kouchinsky et al., 2010[4]
Synonyms
  • Rushtonites Hinz, 1987
  • Tubuterium Melnikova, 2000

Mongolitubulus is a form genus encapsulating a range of ornamented conical small shelly fossils of the Cambrian period. It is potentially synonymous with Rushtonites, Tubuterium and certain species of Rhombocorniculum, and owing to the similarity of the genera,[1][4][5] they are all dealt with herein. Organisms that bore Mongolitubulus-like projections include trilobites, bradoriid arthropods and hallucigeniid lobopodians.[6]

  1. ^ a b Skovsted, C. E.; Peel, J. S. (2001). "The problematic fossil Mongolitubulus from the Lower Cambrian of Greenland" (PDF). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark. 48: 135–147. doi:10.37570/bgsd-2001-48-07.
  2. ^ Missarzhevsky, V. V. (1977). "Konodonty (?) i fosfatnye problematiki kembriya Mongolii i Sibiri". In Tatarinov, L. P (ed.). Bespozvonochnye Paleozoya Mongolii [Paleozoic invertebrates of Mongolia] [Conodonts(?) and phosphatic problematica from the Cambrian of Mongolia and Siberia]. Trudy Sovmestanya Sovetsko-Mongolskaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya [Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition] (in Russian). Vol. 5. pp. 10–19. ISSN 0320-2305.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Topper2007 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b Kouchinsky, A.; Bengtson, S.; Clausen, S. B.; Gubanov, A.; Malinky, J. M.; Peel, J. S. (2011). "A middle Cambrian fauna of skeletal fossils from the Kuonamka Formation, northern Siberia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 35 (1): 123–189. Bibcode:2011Alch...35..123K. doi:10.1080/03115518.2010.496529. S2CID 129911974.
  5. ^ Ryszard Wrona (2004). "Cambrian microfossils from glacial erratics of King George Island, Antarctica". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49 (1): 13–56.
  6. ^ Jean-Bernard Caron, Martin R. Smith & Thomas H. P. Harvey (2013). "Beyond the Burgess Shale: Cambrian microfossils track the rise and fall of hallucigeniid lobopodians". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 280 (1767): 20131613. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1613. PMC 3735267. PMID 23902914.