| Maikhanella Temporal range: Cambrian |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Maikhanella Zhegallo, 1982 |
Maikhanella is a genus of small shelly fossil; it is a 'scaly' shell whose scales are equivalent to sclerites of the genus Siphogonuchites. Not just an agglutination of sclerites, the shells have a calcified matrix. Juvenile shells appear not to incorporate sclerites.[1]