Biology:Prototreta flabellata

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Short description: Species of marine lamp shell

Prototreta flabellata
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian, 540–490 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Genus:
Protreta
Species:
P. flabellata
Binomial name
Protreta flabellata

Prototreta flabellata is one of several species of brachiopod that occur in the Cambrian rocks of central and southern Montana, Nixon Gulch section, Three Forks Quad.[1] It is associated with the trilobite genus Ehmania near the base of the Middle Cambrian Meagher limestone.[2]

References

  1. Xian-Guang, Hou; Siveter, David J.; Siveter, Derek J.; Aldridge, Richard J.; Pei-Yun, Cong; Gabbott, Sarah E.; Xiao-Ya, Ma; Purnell, Mark A. et al. (2017-03-08). The Cambrian fossils of Chengjiang, China : the flowering of early animal life. Hou, Xianguang. (Second ed.). Chichester, West Sussex. ISBN 9781118896310. OCLC 970396735. 
  2. Bell, W. Charles (1941). "Cambrian Brachiopoda from Montana" (in en). Journal of Paleontology 15 (3): 193–255. 

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