Salterellidae

Salterellidae Temporal range: Early Cambrian–Middle Cambrian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Salterella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	†Agmata (?)
Family:	†Salterellidae Walcott, 1886[1]
Type genus
Salterella Billings, 1861
Genera
†Ellisell Peel & Berg-Madsen, 1988 †Salterella Billings, 1861 † Schmidt , 1888
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)
• †
  Schmidt, 1888^[6]
  • †Volborthella tenuis
    Schmidt
    , 1888

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Charles Doolittle Walcott (1886). Second contribution to the studies on the Cambrian faunas of North America. Vol. 30 of Geological Survey bulletin. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 1–369.
2. doi:10.1080/00241160310001254
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3. S2CID 132731070
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4. ^ Peel, J. S.; Berg-Madsen, V. (1988). "A new salterellid (Phylum Agmata) from the upper Middle Cambrian of Denmark" (PDF). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark. 37: 75–82.
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.
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.

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