Biology:Salterellidae

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Short description: Extinct family of enigmatic fossils

Salterellidae
Temporal range: Early Cambrian–Middle Cambrian
Salterella pulchella.png
Salterella
Scientific classification e
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Agmata/?
Family: Salterellidae
Walcott, 1886[1]
Type genus
Salterella
Billings, 1861
Genera
Synonyms[2]

†Volborthellidae Kiaer, 1916

Salterellidae is a family of enigmatic fossil genera from the Early to Middle Cambrian. It was originally created for the genus Salterella by Charles Doolittle Walcott, who placed it in the group Pteropoda.[1] It was later placed in Agmata, a proposed extinct phylum by Ellis L. Yochelson which is accepted by some other authors.[3]

Genera

  • Ellisell Peel & Berg-Madsen, 1988[4]
    • Ellisell yochelsoni Peel & Berg-Madsen, 1988
  • Salterella Billings, 1861[5]
    • Salterella conulata Clark, 1924
    • Salterella maccullochi (Murchison, 1859)
  • Volborthella Schmidt, 1888[6]
    • Volborthella tenuis Schmidt, 1888

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Charles Doolittle Walcott (1886). Second contribution to the studies on the Cambrian faunas of North America. 30 of Geological Survey bulletin. Govt. Print. Off.. pp. 1–369. https://books.google.com/books?id=wikrAAAAYAAJ. 
  2. Yochelson, Ellis L.; Kisselev, Gennadii N. (2003). "Early Cambrian Salterella and Volborthella (Phylum Agmata) re‐evaluated". Lethaia 36 (1): 8–20. doi:10.1080/00241160310001254. 
  3. Peel, John S. (2016). "Anatase and Hadimopanella selection by Salterella from the Kap Troedsson formation (Cambrian Series 2) of North Greenland". GFF 139 (1): 70–74. doi:10.1080/11035897.2016.1227365. 
  4. Peel, J. S.; Berg-Madsen, V. (1988). "A new salterellid (Phylum Agmata) from the upper Middle Cambrian of Denmark". Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 37: 75–82. https://2dgf.dk/xpdf/bull37_01-02-75-82.pdf. 
  5. Billings, E.H. (1861). "On some new or little known species of lower Silurian fossils from the Potsdam Group (Primordial zone)". Palaeozoic Fossils 1 (1): 1–18. https://books.google.com/books?id=HwsKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA17. 
  6. Schmidt, F. (1888). "Über eine neuentdeckte untercambrische Fauna in Estland". Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg. 7 36 (2): 1–27, 2 pls. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_AIgsAAAAYAAJ. 

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