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Mollisonia
Description | Mollisonia is a genus of epifaunal detritivorous arthropod known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Twenty-one specimens of Mollisonia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise less than 0.1% of the community. An observation published in 2019 suggest this genus is a basal chelicerate. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollisonia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Rank | genus | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Mollisonia | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
Classification (GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Mollisonia Walcott, 1912 | |||||||
Name Published In | Smithson. Misc. Coll., 57, no. 2051 | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollisonia |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Mollisonia gracilis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Mollisonia symmetrica species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Smithson. Misc. Coll., 57, no. 2051 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Walcott, 1912 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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!