Global InformationTommotia information
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| Tommotia admiranda | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | incertae sedis (possibly stem-Brachiopoda)
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| Class: | incertae sedis
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| Order: | Mitrosagophora
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| Genus: | †Tommotia Rozanov & Missarzhevsky, 1966
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Tommotia is a small shelly fossil from the Early Cambrian Period. Originally, only a cone-shaped shell was recognized, which was originally thought to be an early cephalopod, with either squid-like tentacles or a snail-like foot. More recent investigation has shown that the cone is not the remains of a complete animal, but a sclerite of a larger, soft-bodied animal that would have resembled a chiton or a sea mouse. The fossils called Camanella may be another type of sclerite from the same animal.[1]
- ^ Begtson, Stefan (1970). "The Lower Cambrian fossil Tommotia". Lethaia. 3 (4): 363–392. Bibcode:1970Letha...3..363B. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1970.tb00829.x.