Camenellan
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Scientific classification 
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The camenellans, consisting of the genera Camenalla, Dailyatia, Kennardia, Kelanella and Lapworthella, are a (probably monophyletic) group of Tommotiid invertebrates from the Cambrian period, reconstructed as sister to all others[clarification needed] (plus brachiopods and phoronids). They are known from isolated sclerites, but are believed to have a scleritomous, Halkieria-like construction.[2][3]
Dailyatia and Camenella have distinct dorsal (symmetrical) and lateral (asymmetric) sclerite morphologies. The same has been asserted for Lapworthella[4] even though that has not always been the common perception.[5]
It has been argued that Camenella, Kelanella and Lapworthella, assuming a slug-like anatomy, had an anterior 'head valve' followed by pairs of asymmetric valves running in pairs along their dorsal surface.[6]
The 'head valve' in Lapworthella - that is the bilaterally symmetric Morph A valve - is thought to have fused from two ontogenetically separate sclerites.[6] Dailyatia has a similar double-mounded structure at the tip of its A type sclerites.[2]
Growth rings in all are marked out by prominent external ridges.[2][6]
Taxonomy
Two families:[2]
Kennardiidae Laurie 1986: three sclerite morphs, one of which (conventionally termed the A morph) is bilaterally symmetrical, the other two occurring in sinistral and dextral variants. Includes Kennardia and Dailyatia, and questionably Shetlandia
Lapworthellidae: sclerites occur in something of a morphological continuum, but essentially form a single type with a sinistral and dextral version, possibly with the anterior-most pair of sclerites fusing into a single bilaterally-symmetrical, dual-tipped sclerite.
Dailyatia species:[2]
- D. ajax Bischoff 1976 (type)
- D. bacata Skovsted et al 2015
- D. braddocki Evans & Rowell 1990
- D. helica Skovsted et al 2015
- D. macroptera (Tate 1892)
- D. odyssei Evans & Rowell 1990
References
- ^ Devaere, L. et al. The tommotiid ~Kelanella~ and associated fauna from the early Cambrian of southern Montagne Noire (France): implications for camenellan phylogeny. Palaeontology 57, 979–1002 (2014).
- ^ a b c d e Skovsted, C. B., Betts, M. J., Topper, T. P. & Brock, G. A. The early Cambrian tommotiid genus ~Dailyatia~ from South Australia. Mem. Assoc. Australas. Palaeontol. 48, 1–117 (2015).
- ^ Murdock, D. J. E., Donoghue, P. C. J., Bengtson, S. & Marone, F. Ontogeny and micro-structure of the enigmatic Cambrian tommotiid ~Sunnaginia~ Missarzhevsky, 1969. Palaeontology 55, 661–676 (2012).
- ^ Devaere, L. & Skovsted, C. B. New early Cambrian sclerites of ~Lapworthella schodakensis~ from NE Greenland: advancements in knowledge of lapworthellid taxonomy, sclerite growth and scleritome organization. Geol. Mag. (2016). doi:10.1017/S0016756816000698
- ^ Murdock, D. J. E., Donoghue, P. C. J., Bengtson, S. & Marone, F. Ontogeny and micro-structure of the enigmatic Cambrian tommotiid ~Sunnaginia~ Missarzhevsky, 1969. Palaeontology 55, 661–676 (2012).
- ^ a b c Devaere, L. & Skovsted, C. B. New early Cambrian sclerites of ~Lapworthella schodakensis~ from NE Greenland: advancements in knowledge of lapworthellid taxonomy, sclerite growth and scleritome organization. Geol. Mag. (2016). doi:10.1017/S0016756816000698
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