Salterella

Salterella
S. pulchella[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia (?)
Phylum: Agmata
Genus: Salterella
Billings

Salterella is an enigmatic CambrianOrdovician genus with a calcareous shell that appears to be septate,[2] but is rather filled with stratified laminar deposits.[3] Its shell contains grains of sediment, which are obtained selectively (with a preference for denser grains) by a manner also observed in foramanifera.[4]

See also

References

  1. Charles Doolittle Walcott (1886). Second contribution to the studies on the Cambrian faunas of North America. 30 of Geological Survey bulletin. Govt. Print. Off.,. p. 369.
  2. Lipps, J. H.; Sylvester, A. G. (1 March 1968). "The Enigmatic Cambrian Fossil Volborthella and Its Occurrence in California". Journal of Paleontology. 42 (2): 329–336. ISSN 0022-3360. JSTOR 1302218.
  3. Yochelson, E. L.; Flower, R. H.; Webers, G. F. (1973), "The bearing of the new Late Cambrian monoplacophoran genus Knightoconus upon the origin of the Cephalopoda", Lethaia, 6 (3): 275–309, doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1973.tb01199.x
  4. Peel, John S. (2016). "Anatase and Hadimopanellaselection by Salterellafrom the Kap Troedsson formation (Cambrian Series 2) of North Greenland". GFF: 1. doi:10.1080/11035897.2016.1227365.
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