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

  1. ^ CHEN, J-Y.; M-Y. ZHU,; G. Q. ZHOU (1995). "The early Cambrian medusiform metazoan Eldonia from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte.". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 40: 213–244. http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app40/app40-213.pdf. 
  2. ^ Zhu, M. (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.  edit
  3. ^ 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. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2833208.  edit