Rotadiscus
| Rotadiscus Temporal range: Early Cambrian – MIddle Cambrian.[1] | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| (unranked): | Eldoniida |
| Genus: | Rotadiscus |
Rotadiscus is a genus of discoidal animal known from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota[2] and classified with the eldoniids.[3]
As with other eldoniids, it was originally thought to have been pelagic, but is now thought to be benthic.
References
- ↑ CHEN, J-Y.; M-Y. ZHU,; G. Q. ZHOU (1995). "The early Cambrian medusiform metazoan Eldonia from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte." (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 40: 213–244.
- ↑ Zhu, M.; Zhao, Yuan-Long; Chen, Jun-Yuan (2002). "Révision des animaux discoïdes cambriens Stellostomites eumorphus et Pararotadiscus guizhouensis de Chine du Sud". Geobios. 35 (2): 165–185. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(02)00025-6.
- ↑ Caron, J.; Conway Morris, S.; Shu, D.; Soares, D. (2010). Soares, Daphne, ed. "Tentaculate fossils from the Cambrian of Canada (British Columbia) and China (Yunnan) interpreted as primitive deuterostomes". PLoS ONE. 5 (3): e9586. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009586. PMC 2833208
. PMID 20221405.
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