Nisusia

Nisusia
Nisusia burgessensis
Temporal range: Burgess Shale
Scientific classification e
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

  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