Biology:Cambroclave

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Cambroclaves are a group of enigmatic, phosphatized, hollow spine-shaped sclerites, known from their geographically widespread Early to Middle Cambrian fossils,[1] which occur exclusively in shallow waters within the photic zone. They were probably originally aragonitic.[2] They are lobate with long spines protruding centrally; these spines are in some cases (e.g. Zhijinites) pillar-like, constituted of a bundle rods (originally aragonite?) with an Ionic-like appearance.[3] Some taxa have been compared to spicules of ecdysozoan worms,[4] whereas others likely belong to Protomelission-like organisms, which have been argued to be affiliated with the dasycladalean green algae and the bryozoans.[5]


Subdivisions

  • Family Zhijinitidae (Qian, 1978)
    • Genus Ambarchaeooides
    • Genus Cambroclavus
    • Genus Cambrothyra
    • Genus Deiradovclavus
    • Genus Deltaclavus
    • Genus Isoclavus
    • Genus Paracarinachites
    • Genus Pseudoclavus
    • Genus Sinoclavus
    • Genus Tanbaoites
    • Genus Zhijinites [6]

See also

  • Paracarinachitid

References

  1. ↑ Wotte, Thomas (2009). "The Youngest Cambroclaves: Cambroclavus absonus from the Middle Cambrian of the Cantabrian Zone (Northwest Spain)". Journal of Paleontology 83 (1): 128–134. doi:10.1666/08-039R.1. Bibcode: 2009JPal...83..128W. 
  2. ↑ Porter, S. M. (2010). "Calcite and aragonite seas and the de novo acquisition of carbonate skeletons". Geobiology 8 (4): 256–277. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2010.00246.x. PMID 20550583. Bibcode: 2010Gbio....8..256P. 
  3. ↑ Template:Cite palaeontology
  4. ↑ Conway Morris, S.; Peel, J.S. (2010). "New palaeoscolecidan worms from the Lower Cambrian: Sirius Passet, Latham Shale and Kinzers Shale". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55 (1): 141–156. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0058. https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app55/app20090058.pdf. 
  5. ↑ "Protomelission is a dasyclad alga and not a bryozoan". Nature. 2023. 
  6. ↑ Qian, Y. 1978: The early Cambrian hyolithids in central and southwest China and their stratigraphical significance. Memoirs of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology 11.

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