Paterina

Paterina is a genus of brachiopods known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 18 specimens of Paterina are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.03% of the community.[1]

Paterina
Temporal range: Miaolingian ~508 Ma
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Paterina
  • "Paterina zenobia". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.

References

  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.


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