The Menevian
The Menevian Age of the Middle Cambrian Epoch: 507 to 501 million years ago
Biota of the
Burgess Shale Lagerstätten:
sponges Vanuxia (1),
Choia (2),
Pirania (3);
brachiopods Nisusia (4); polychaetes
Burgessochaeta (5); priapulid worms
Ottia (6),
Louisella (7);
trilobites Olenoides
(8); other
arthropods Sidneyia (9),
Leanchoilia (10),
Marella (11),
Canadaspis (12),
Molaria (13),
Burgessia (14),
Yohoia (15),
Waptia (16),
Aysheaia (17);
molluscs Scenella (18);
echinoderms Echmatocrinus (19);
chordates Pikaia (20); along with
Haplophrentis (21),
Opabina (22), lophophorate
Dinomischus (23), proto-annelid
Wiwaxia (24), and anomalocarid
Laggania cambria (25).
from The Fossils of the Burgess Shales, by Briggs, Erwin and Collier, 1994)
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