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Nectocaris pteryx ✝
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Rank | species (PBDB) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Nectocarididae : Nectocaris : Nectocaris pteryx | |||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 520 - 516 Ma Cambrian | |||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 513 - 505 Ma Cambrian | |||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | actively mobile (based on Nectocaris) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | carnivore (based on Nectocaris) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | S. Conway Morris. 1976. Nectocaris pteryx, a new organism from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Mittheilungen 12:703-713 |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1976 | Nectocaris pteryx Conway Morris |
1979 | Vetustovermis planus Glaessner |
1999 | Petalium latus Luo and Hu |
2005 | Vetustovermis planus Chen et al. p. 2007 |
2010 | Nectocaris pteryx Smith and Caron pp. 469 - 471 figs. 1-2 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!