- Nisusia
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Nisusia burgessensis
Temporal range: Burgess ShaleScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Brachiopoda Class: Binomial name Nisusia burgessensis
Walcott, 1905 (Walcott, 1889)Synonyms Orthisina alberta Walcott, 1889
Nisusia is a genus of brachiopod known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 133 specimens of Nisusia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.25% of the community.[1]
References
- ^ 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.
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