Worthenella
| Worthenella Temporal range:
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| Type specimen of W. cambria in shale | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Megacheira |
| Family: | †Kootenichelidae |
| Genus: | †Worthenella Walcott, 1911[1] |
| Type species | |
| Worthenella cambria Walcott, 1911[1]
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Worthenella is a genus of stem-group arthropod from the Burgess Shale.[2] Charles Doolittle Walcott named the species in 1911. In 2013, David Legg placed it in the family Kootenichelidae as a sister to Kootenichela.[3]
References[]
- ^ a b Walcott, Charles D. (1911). "Cambrian Geology and Paleontology II. Middle Cambrian annelids". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 57 (5): 125–127. hdl:10088/34820Pl. 22, Fig. 2.CS1 maint: postscript (link)
- ^ "Worthenella cambria". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.
- ^ Legg, David (2013). "Multi-Segmented Arthropods from the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia (Canada)". Journal of Paleontology. 87 (3): 493–501. doi:10.1666/12-112.1. S2CID 86725173.
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