Biology:Stephenoscolex

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Short description: Genus of annelids (fossil)


Stephenoscolex
Temporal range: Burgess Shale
Scientific classification
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Family:
Stephenoscolecidae

Conway Morris, 1979
Genus:
Stephenoscolex

Conway Morris, 1979
Species:
S. argutus
Binomial name
Stephenoscolex argutus
Conway Morris, 1979

Stephenoscolex is a genus of polychaete worm known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 150 specimens of Stephenoscolex are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.29% of the community.[1] The genus was described by Conway Morris (1979)[2] and re-examined by Eibye-Jacobsen (2004).[3]

References

  1. Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. Bibcode2006Palai..21..451C. 
  2. Conway Morris, S. (1979). "Middle Cambrian Polychaetes from the Burgess Shale of British Columbia". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 285 (1007): 227–274. doi:10.1098/rstb.1979.0006. Bibcode1979RSPTB.285..227M. 
  3. Eibye-Jacobsen, D. (2004). "A reevaluation of Wiwaxia and the polychaetes of the Burgess Shale". Lethaia 37 (3): 317–335. doi:10.1080/00241160410002027. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q16889343 entry