Salterellidae Temporal range:
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Salterella | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | †Agmata (?) |
Family: | †Salterellidae Walcott, 1886[1] |
Type genus | |
Salterella Billings, 1861
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Genera | |
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Synonyms[2] | |
†Volborthellidae Kiaer, 1916 |
Salterellidae is a family of enigmatic fossil genera from the Early to Middle Cambrian. It was originally created for the genus Salterella by Charles Doolittle Walcott, who placed it in the group Pteropoda.[1] It was later placed in Agmata, a proposed extinct phylum by Ellis L. Yochelson which is accepted by some other authors.[3]