Tannuella
Appearance
Tannuella Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | †Helcionelloida |
Order: | †Helcionelliformes |
Family: | †Helcionellidae |
Genus: | †Tannuella |
Tannuella is a genus of helcionellids known from Lower Cambrian strata.
It has a high, septate shell similar to that of Knightoconus . These genera were once considered ancestral cephalopods,[1] but are more broadly assigned to the helcionellids (or putatively the tergomyans); i.e. "Cambrian monoplacophora".[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Kröger, B. R.; Vinther, J.; Fuchs, D. (2011). "Cephalopod origin and evolution: A congruent picture emerging from fossils, development and molecules". BioEssays. 33 (8): 602–613. doi:10.1002/bies.201100001. PMID 21681989.
- ^ Brock, G. A. (2004). "A New species of Tannuella (Helcionellida, Mollusca) from the Early Cambrian of South Australia". Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoirs. 30: 133–143. hdl:1959.14/41429. ISSN 0810-8889.