Tommotia

Taxobox
name = "Tommotia"
fossil_range = Early Cambrian


image_caption = "Tommotia admiranda"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = incertae sedis (possibly stem-Brachiopoda)
classis = incertae sedis
ordo = Mitrosagophora
genus = "Tommotia"

"Tommotia" is a small shelly fossil from the Early Cambrian Period. It was previously thought to be an early cephalopod, with either squid-like tentacles or a snail-like foot. More recent investigation has shown that it is not the remains of a complete animal, but a sclerite of a larger, soft-bodied animal that would have resembled a chiton or a sea mouse. The fossils called "Camanella" may be another type of sclerite from the same animal. [cite journal
author=Begtson, Stefan
title=The Lower Cambrian fossil "Tommotia"
journal=Lethaia
year=1970 | volume=3 | number=4 | pages=363–392
doi=10.1111/j.1502-3931.1970.tb00829.x]

References

External links

* [http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Cambrian/Tommotian.htm The Tommotian Age of the Early Cambrian Epoch]