Margaretia
| Margaretia Temporal range:
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| Reconstruction of M. dorus as organic tube that is associated with Oesia disjuncta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Margaretia Walcott, 1931 |
| Species: | †M. dorus
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| †Margaretia dorus Walcott, 1931
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Margaretia is a
alcyonarian coral.[2] It was later reclassified as a green alga closely resembling modern Caulerpa by D.F. Satterthwait in her Ph.D. thesis in 1976,[3] a finding supported by Conway Morris and Robison in 1988.[2] More recently, it has been treated as an organic tube, that is used as nest of hemichordate Oesia.[4]
References
- OCLC 231793738
- ^ a b S.Conway Morris and R.A. Robison, "More soft-bodied Animals and Algae from the Middle Cambrian of Utah and British Columbia", University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Paper 122, pages 8-11, 1988. [1]
- ^ Donna Fields Satterthwait, Paleobiology and Paleoecology of Middle Cambrian Algae from Western North America, Ph.D. Thesis University of California at Los Angeles, 1976.
- PMID 27383414.
External links
- "Margaretia dorus". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12.