Mollisonia

Mollisonia is a genus of epifaunal detritivorous arthropod.

Mollisonia
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Chelicerata
Order:
Mollisoniida
Genus:
Mollisonia

Walcott, 1912
Type species
Mollisonia symmetrica
Walcott 1912
Other species
  • Mollisonia plenovenatrix Aria and Caron, 2019
  • Mollisonia gracilis Walcott, 1912
  • Mollisonia sinica Zhang et al., 2002
Synonyms

Houghtonites Raymond, 1931

Evidence

Species are known from the Cambrian Burgess Shale, Langston Formation, and Wheeler Shale of North America, as well as the Chengjiang Biota of China.[1] Twenty-one specimens of Mollisonia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise less than 0.1% of the community.[2] Remains attributed to the genus are also known from the Ordovician Fezouata Formation of Morocco and Greenland.[3]

Conjectured taxonomy

An observation published in 2019 suggests this genus is a basal chelicerate, closer to crown group Chelicerata than members of Habeliida. It is suggested to be closely related to Corcorania, Ecnomocaris, and Thelxiope, which together form the clade Mollisoniida.[4]

References
  1. Zhang, Xingliang; Zhao, Yuanlong; Yang, Ruidong; Shu, Degan (November 2002). "The Burgess Shale arthropod Mollisonia (M. sinica new species): new occurrence from the Middle Cambrian Kaili fauna of southwest China". Journal of Paleontology. 76 (6): 1106–1108. doi:10.1017/S0022336000057917. ISSN 0022-3360.
  2. Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022.
  3. Peel, John S.; Willman, Sebastian; Pedersen, Stig A. Schack (March 2020). "Unusual preservation of an Ordovician (Floian) arthropod from Peary Land, North Greenland (Laurentia)". PalZ. 94 (1): 41–51. doi:10.1007/s12542-019-00481-y. ISSN 0031-0220.
  4. Aria, Cédric; Caron, Jean-Bernard (September 2019). "A middle Cambrian arthropod with chelicerae and proto-book gills". Nature. 573 (7775): 586–589. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1525-4. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 31511691.


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