Orstenoloricus

Orstenoloricus is a loriciferan larva, presumably from the stem group,[2] preserved by early three-dimensional mineralization in an orsten-type setting in the mid-Cambrian of Australia.[3] It somewhat resembles the larva of the unusual loriciferan Tenuiloricus.[4]

Orstenoloricus
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Stem group: Loricifera
Genus: †Orstenoloricus
Maas et al, 2009
Species:
†O. shergoldii
Binomial name
†Orstenoloricus shergoldii
Maas et al, 2009[1]

References
  1. Maas, A., Waloszek, D., Haug, J.T. & Müller, K.J., 2009:12:24. Loricate larvae (Scalidophora) from the Middle Cambrian of Australia. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 37, 281-302. ISSN 0810-8889.
  2. Peel, J. S.; Stein, M.; Kristensen, R. M. B. (2013). "Life Cycle and Morphology of a Cambrian Stem-Lineage Loriciferan". PLoS ONE. 8 (8): e73583. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073583. PMC 3749095. PMID 23991198.
  3. Maas, A., Waloszek, D., Haug, J.T. & Müller, K.J., 2009:12:24. Loricate larvae (Scalidophora) from the Middle Cambrian of Australia. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 37, 281-302. ISSN 0810-8889.
  4. Neves, R. C. (2013). "A new type of loriciferan larva (Shira larva) from the deep sea of Shatsky Rise, Pacific Ocean" (PDF). Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 14 (2): 163–171. doi:10.1007/s13127-013-0160-4.
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