Mollisonia

Mollisonia; Temporal range: Burgess Shale PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Genus:	Mollisonia

Mollisonia is a genus of epifaunal detritivorous arthropod known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Twenty-one specimens of Mollisonia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise less than 0.1% of the community.[1] An observation published in 2019 suggest this genus is a basal chelicerate, closer to crown group chelicerata than members of Habeliida.[2]

External links

"Mollisonia symmetrica". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.

References

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.
Aria, Cédric; Caron, Jean-Bernard (September 2019). "A middle Cambrian arthropod with chelicerae and proto-book gills". Nature. 573 (7775): 586–589. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1525-4. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 31511691.

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[Caron2006-1] 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.

[2] Aria, Cédric; Caron, Jean-Bernard (September 2019). "A middle Cambrian arthropod with chelicerae and proto-book gills". Nature. 573 (7775): 586–589. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1525-4. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 31511691.