Cyrtochites

Cyrtochites
Cyrtochites
Temporal range: Early Cambrian
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: incertae sedis
Genus: Cyrtochites
Qian & Bengtson, 1989

Cyrtochites is a genus of taxonomically-problematic tooth-shaped small shelly fossil reconstructed as the jaw of a predatory organism.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Qian Yi & Stefan Bengtson (1989). "Palaeontology and biostratigraphy of the Early Cambrian Meishucunian Stage in Yunnan Province, south China". Fossils and Strata 24. 
  2. ^ Maloof, A. C.; Porter, S. M.; Moore, J. L.; Dudas, F. O.; Bowring, S. A.; Higgins, J. A.; Fike, D. A.; Eddy, M. P. (2010). "The earliest Cambrian record of animals and ocean geochemical change". Geological Society of America Bulletin 122 (11-12): 1731–1774. doi:10.1130/B30346.1.  edit



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