Anabarites
Appearance
Anabarites Temporal range:
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Class: | Angustiochreida
Valkov & Syssoiev, 1970 |
Family: | Anabaritidae
Glaessner, 1979 |
Genus: | Anabarites Missarzhevsky, 1969
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Anabarites is a problematic lower Cambrian genus, and is one of the small shelly fossils. It was abundant in the early Tommotian and is also found in the Nemakit-Daldynian.[1] The fossils represent the triradially symmetrical mineralised tube in which the organism dwelt; it was sedentary.[2] It is named after the Anabar region in Yakutia, Russia; its name does not imply 'heavy'.[3]
Further reading
For images, see Matthews, S. C.; Missarzhevsky, V. V. (1975). "Small shelly fossils of late Precambrian and early Cambrian age: a review of recent work". Journal of the Geological Society. 131 (3): 289–303. doi:10.1144/gsjgs.131.3.0289.
- Kouchinsky, Artem; Bengtson, Stefan (2002). "The tube wall of Cambrian anabaritids" (PDF). Acta Palaeontol. Pol. 47 (3): 431–444.
References
- ^ Felitsyn, S. B.; Gubanov, A. P. (2002). "Nd isotope composition of early Cambrian discrete basins". Geological Magazine. 139 (2). doi:10.1017/S0016756801006252.
- ^ Yi, Q.; Bengtson, S. (1989). "FOSSILS AND STRATA Shards of the Cambrian explosion". Lethaia. 22 (3): 270–270. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1989.tb01341.x.
- ^ Matthews, S. C.; Missarzhevsky, V. V. (1975). "Small shelly fossils of late Precambrian and early Cambrian age: a review of recent work". Journal of the Geological Society. 131 (3): 289–303. doi:10.1144/gsjgs.131.3.0289.