Maikhanella

Maikhanella
Maikhanella
Temporal range: Cambrian
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: incertae sedis
Genus: †Maikhanella
Zhegallo, 1982

Maikhanella is a genus of small shelly fossil; it is a 'scaly' shell whose scales are equivalent to sclerites of the genus Siphogonuchites. Not just an agglutination of sclerites, the shells have a calcified matrix. Juvenile shells appear not to incorporate sclerites.[1]

References

  1. ^ Bengtson, S. (1992). "The cap-shaped Cambrian fossil Maikhanella and the relationship between coeloscleritophorans and molluscs". Lethaia 25 (4): 401–420. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1992.tb01644.x.  edit



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