Ellisell

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Ellisell
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Agmata (?)
Family: Salterellidae
Genus: Ellisell
Peel & Berg-Madsen, 1988[1]
Species:
E. yochelsoni
Binomial name
Ellisell yochelsoni
Peel & Berg-Madsen, 1988[1]

Ellisell is a Middle Cambrian genus of fossils from Denmark. It contains only one species, Ellisell yochelsoni. Both the genus and species are named after the paleontologist and geologist  [de] (1928–2006), who had turned 60 at the time the fossils were first described.[1] The genus was originally placed in the family Salterellidae of the phylum Agmata;[1] this placement was rejected by Yochelson & Kisselev (2003),[2] but was restored by Peel (2016).[3] Ellisell is distinguished from Salterella by its slowly expanding conch and the resulting cylindrical apertural cavity, compared to the latter's more rapidly expanding conch and cone-shaped apertural cavity.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Peel, J. S.; Berg-Madsen, V. (1988). "A new salterellid (Phylum Agmata) from the upper Middle Cambrian of Denmark" (PDF). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark. 37: 75–82.
  2. ^ Yochelson, Ellis L.; Kisselev, Gennadii N. (2003). "Early Cambrian Salterella and Volborthella (Phylum Agmata) re‐evaluated". Lethaia. 36 (1): 8–20. doi:10.1080/00241160310001254.
  3. ^ Peel, John S. (2016). "Anatase and Hadimopanella selection by Salterella from the Kap Troedsson formation (Cambrian Series 2) of North Greenland". GFF. 139 (1): 70–74. doi:10.1080/11035897.2016.1227365.


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