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Cambrian fossils

Archiasterella
Temporal range: Early Cambrian–Middle Cambrian PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Order: Chancelloriida
Family: Chancelloriidae
Genus: Archiasterella
Sdzuy, 1969
Species
  • A. fletchergryllus Randell et al, 2003
  • A. hirundo Bengston, 1990 (in Bengston et al)
  • A. pentactina Sdzuy, 1969 (type)

Achiasterella is a genus of scleritophoran known from the Burgess Shale and earlier (Branchian) deposits, and originally described as Chancelloria by Walcott. The species may represent form taxa rather than true species.

References

  1. ^ Randell, R. D.; Lieberman, B. S.; Hasiotis, S. T.; Pope, M. C. (2005). "New Chancelloriids from the Early Cambrian Sekwi Formation with a Comment on Chancelloriid Affinities". Journal of Paleontology. 79 (5): 987–996. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2005)079[0987:NCFTEC]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3360. S2CID 130292492.
  2. Bengtson, Stefan; Collins, Desmond (August 2009). "Burgess Shale Chancelloriids – A Prickly Problem" (PDF). In Smith, Martin R.; O'Brien, Lorna J.; Caron, Jean-Bernard (eds.). Abstract Volume. International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion (Walcott 2009). Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Burgess Shale Consortium (published 31 July 2009). ISBN 978-0-9812885-1-2.
  3. Clausen, S.; Álvaro, J. J (2006). "Skeletonized microfossils from the Lower–Middle Cambrian transition of the Cantabrian Mountains, northern Spain" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 51 (2): 223–238. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
Taxon identifiers
Archiasterella


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