Tommotia

Tommotia; Temporal range: Tommotian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Tommotia admiranda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	incertae sedis (possibly stem-Brachiopoda)
Class:	incertae sedis
Order:	Mitrosagophora
Genus:	†Tommotia; Rozanov & Missarzhevsky, 1966
Referred species
	†T. admiranda (Rozanov & Missarzhevsky, 1966); †T. baltica (Bengtson 1970); †T. garbowskae (Rozanov & Missarzhevsky, 1966); †T. korolevi (Missarzhevsky & Mambetov, 1981); †T. kozlowskii (Missarzhevsky & Mambetov, 1966); †T. parilobata (Bengtson, 1986); †T. reticulosa (Bengtson et al. 1990);

Tommotia is a small shelly fossil from the Early Cambrian Period. Originally, only a cone-shaped shell was recognized, which was originally thought to be an early cephalopod, with either squid-like tentacles or a snail-like foot. More recent investigation has shown that the cone is not the remains of a complete animal, but a sclerite of a larger, soft-bodied animal that would have resembled a chiton or a sea mouse. The fossils called Camanella may be another type of sclerite from the same animal.^[1]

References

^ Begtson, Stefan (1970). "The Lower Cambrian fossil Tommotia". Lethaia. 3 (4): 363–392. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1970.tb00829.x.

External links

The Tommotian Age of the Early Cambrian Epoch

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[1] Begtson, Stefan (1970). "The Lower Cambrian fossil Tommotia". Lethaia. 3 (4): 363–392. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1970.tb00829.x.

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