Cyrtochites is a genus of taxonomically-problematic tooth-shaped small shelly fossil reconstructed as the jaw of a predatory organism.[1][2]
Cyrtochites Temporal range:
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †Cyrtochites Qian & Bengtson, 1989 |
References
edit- ^ Qian Yi & Stefan Bengtson (1989). "Palaeontology and biostratigraphy of the Early Cambrian Meishucunian Stage in Yunnan Province, south China". Fossils and Strata. 24.
- ^ Maloof, A. C.; Porter, S. M.; Moore, J. L.; Dudas, F. O.; Bowring, S. A.; Higgins, J. A.; Fike, D. A.; Eddy, M. P. (2010). "The earliest Cambrian record of animals and ocean geochemical change". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 122 (11–12): 1731–1774. doi:10.1130/B30346.1.