Rhombocorniculum

Rhombocorniculum; Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 2–Cambrian Stage 3 PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Family:	†
Genus:	†Rhombocorniculum; Walliser, 1958

Rhombocorniculum is a species of small shelly fossil comprising twisted ornamented cones. It has been described from the and elsewhere. R. cancellatum straddles the Atdabanian/Botomian boundary.^[1] The structure of its inner layer suggests that its phosphatic fibres formed within a flexible organic matrix.^[3]

Taxonomy[]

Three species are recognized — in stratigraphic succession: R. insolutum, R. cancellatum (=R. walliseri), and R. spinosus (=Rushtonites spinosus).^[4] Landing (1995) refers R. insolutum to the strictocorniculids, along with Rushtonites.^[3] Hinz (1987) considers insolutum to fall within the variability seen in cancellatum.

Affinity[]

Based on details of the ornament and construction, Rhombocorniculum is interpreted as the spines of a Hallucigenia-like lobopodian worm.^[5]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Brasier, M. D. (1986). "The succession of small shelly fossils (especially conoidal microfossils) from English Precambrian–Cambrian boundary beds". Geological Magazine. 123 (3): 237. doi:10.1017/S0016756800034737.
^ Otto H. Walliser (1958). "Rhombocorniculum comleyense n. gen., n. sp". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 32 (3–4): 176–180. doi:10.1007/BF02989029.
^ ^a ^b Landing, E. (May 1995). "Upper Placentian-Branchian Series of Mainland Nova Scotia (Middle-Upper Lower Cambrian): Faunas, Paleoenvironments, and Stratigraphic Revision". Journal of Paleontology. 69 (3): 475–495. doi:10.1017/S0022336000034879. JSTOR 1306322.
^ Brasier, M. D. (1989). Towards a biostratigraphy of the earliest skeletal biotas. In J. W. Cowie & M. D. Brasier (Eds.), The Precambrian-Cambrian boundary (pp. 117–165). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
^ Caron, J. -B.; Smith, M. R.; Harvey, T. H. P. (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.

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[Brasier2009-1] Brasier, M. D. (1986). "The succession of small shelly fossils (especially conoidal microfossils) from English Precambrian–Cambrian boundary beds". Geological Magazine. 123 (3): 237. doi:10.1017/S0016756800034737.

[ref_-2] Otto H. Walliser (1958). "Rhombocorniculum comleyense n. gen., n. sp". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 32 (3–4): 176–180. doi:10.1007/BF02989029.

[Landing1995-3] Landing, E. (May 1995). "Upper Placentian-Branchian Series of Mainland Nova Scotia (Middle-Upper Lower Cambrian): Faunas, Paleoenvironments, and Stratigraphic Revision". Journal of Paleontology. 69 (3): 475–495. doi:10.1017/S0022336000034879. JSTOR 1306322.

[Brasier1989-4] Brasier, M. D. (1989). Towards a biostratigraphy of the earliest skeletal biotas. In J. W. Cowie & M. D. Brasier (Eds.), The Precambrian-Cambrian boundary (pp. 117–165). Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[Caron2013-5] Caron, J. -B.; Smith, M. R.; Harvey, T. H. P. (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.

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Rhombocorniculum

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