Chancelloria
Chancelloria Temporal range:
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Fossil Chancelloria pentacta displayed at the Paleontological Research Institution, NY | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | incertae sedis |
Class: | †Coeloscleritophora |
Order: | †Chancelloriida |
Family: | †Chancelloriidae |
Genus: | †Chancelloria Walcott, 1920 |
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Chancelloria is a genus of early animals known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, the Comley limestone,[4] the Wheeler Shale,[2] the Bright Angel Shale[5] and elsewhere. It is named after Chancellor Peak. It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott, who regarded them as one of the most primitive groups of sponges.[6] This appears unlikely, and it is currently placed in the enigmatic group Coeloscleritophora.[7] 178 specimens of Chancelloria are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.34% of the community.[8]
References[]
- ^ Sdzuy, K. (1969). "Unter- and mittelkambrische Porifera. (Chancellorida und Hexactinellida)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 43 (3–4): 115–147. doi:10.1007/bf02987647.
- ^ a b Keith Rigby, J. (1978). "Porifera of the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale, from the Wheeler Amphitheater, House Range, in Western Utah". Journal of Paleontology. 52 (6): 1325–1345. JSTOR 1303938.
- ^ Hao Yun; Glenn A. Brock; Xingliang Zhang; Luoyang Li; Diego C. García-Bellido; John R. Paterson (2019). "A new chancelloriid from the Emu Bay Shale (Cambrian Stage 4) of South Australia". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. Online edition (13): 857–867. doi:10.1080/14772019.2018.1496952.
- ^ Reid, R. E. H. (2009). "Occurrence of Chancelloria Walcott in the Comley Limestone". Geological Magazine. 96 (3): 261–262. doi:10.1017/S0016756800060271.
- ^ Elliott, D. K.; Martin, D. L. (1987). "Chancelloria, an enigmatic fossil from the Bright Angel Shale (Cambrian) of Grand Canyon, Arizona". Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science. 21 (2): 67–72. JSTOR 40024887.
- ^ Walcott, C. D. (1920). "Cambrian geology and paleontology IV:6—Middle Cambrian Spongiae". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 67: 261–364.
- ^ Bengtson, S.; Hou, X. (2001). "The integument of Cambrian chancelloriids" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 46 (1): 1–22.
- ^ 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.
External links[]
- "Chancelloria eros". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.
Categories:
- Burgess Shale fossils
- Enigmatic prehistoric animal genera
- Taxa named by Charles Doolittle Walcott
- Fossil taxa described in 1920
- Cambrian genus extinctions
- Wheeler Shale
- Paleozoic life of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Paleozoic life of Nova Scotia
- Paleozoic life of Quebec
- Cambrian animal stubs