Biology:Sunnaginia

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Short description: Extinct genus of brachiopods

Sunnaginia
Temporal range: Lower Cambrian
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Order: "Tommotiida"
Genus: Sunnaginia
Missarzhevsky, 1969

Sunnaginia is a tommotiid known from the Comely Limestone and elsewhere, and appears to represent one of the closest relatives to the brachiopod crown group, in a more derived position than Eccentrotheca.[1]

See also

  • Sunnagyn

References

  1. Murdock, D. J. E.; Donoghue, P. C. J.; Bengtson, S.; Marone, F. (2012). "Ontogeny and microstructure of the enigmatic Cambrian tommotiid Sunnaginia Missarzhevsky, 1969". Palaeontology 55 (3): 661–676. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01131.x. Bibcode2012Palgy..55..661M. 

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