Biology:Oesia
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Short description: Animal genus from the Burgess shales (fossil)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Hemichordata |
| Genus: | †Oesia Walcott, 1911 |
| Species: | †O. disjuncta
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| †Oesia disjuncta Walcott, 1911
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Oesia disjuncta is a monospecific genus of hemichordate known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.[1] 1147 specimens of Oesia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 2.18% of the community.[2] It was previously compared to the chaetognaths,[3] annelids and tunicates.[4]
References
- ↑ Nanglu, K.; Caron, J.; Conway Morris, S.; Cameron, C. (2016). "Cambrian suspension-feeding tubicolous hemichordates". BMC Biology 14 (56): 56. doi:10.1186/s12915-016-0271-4. PMID 27383414.
- ↑ 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. Bibcode: 2006Palai..21..451C.
- ↑ Szaniawski, H. (2009). "Fossil Chaetognaths from the Burgess Shale: A Reply to Conway Morris (2009)". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54 (2): 361–364. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0030.
- ↑ Nelson R Cabej (2019). Epigenetic Mechanisms of the Cambrian Explosion. Elsevier Science. p. 153. ISBN 9780128143124. https://books.google.com/books?id=QdO1DwAAQBAJ&dq=Myoscolex&pg=PA153.
Wikidata ☰ Q7078699 entry
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