Mollisonia

Mollisonia
Mollisonia
Temporal range: Burgess Shale
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Genus: Mollisonia

Mollisonia is a genus of epifaunal detritivorous arthropod known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 21 specimens of Mollisonia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise < 0.1% of the community.[1]

References

  1. ^ Caron, J. -B.; Jackson, D. A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS 21 (5): 451–465. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R.  edit