Helmetia
| Helmetia expansa Temporal range: Cambrian | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Stem-group: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Helmetiida |
| Family: | †Helmetiidae |
| Genus: | †Helmetia |
| Species: | † H. expansa |
| Binomial name | |
| Helmetia expansa Walcott, 1918 | |
Helmetia is an extinct genus of arthropod from the Cambrian. Its fossils have been found in the Burgess Shale and the Czech Republic.[1]
References
- ↑ Kordule Chlupáč (2002). "Arthropods of Burgess Shale type from the Middle Cambrian of Bohemia (Czech Republic)". Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey 77: 167–182.
Sources
- Stephen Jay Gould (1989). Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. W. W. Norton & Company.
- Xian-Guang Hou, Richard J. Aldridge, Jan Bergström, David J. Siveter, Derek J. Siveter & Feng Xiang-Hong (2004). The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China: The Flowering of Early Animal Life. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-0673-3.
External links
- "Helmetia expansa". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.
- Helmetia in the Paleobiology Database