Dalyia

<i>Dalyia</i>

Dalyia

Genus of marine worm-like animals

Dalyia is a pterobranch known from the middle Cambrian Burgess shale.[1] It was previously interpreted as a red alga.[2] It has smooth or faintly lineated stems, which branch into up to four equal branches at branching points. 37 specimens of Dalyia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.07% of the community.[3]

Quick Facts Scientific classification, Binomial name ...

References

  1. [1]
    Maletz, Jörg; Steiner, Michael (2015). "Graptolite (Hemichordata, Pterobranchia) preservation and identification in the Cambrian Series 3". Palaeontology. 58 (6): 1073–1107. Bibcode:2015Palgy..58.1073M. doi:10.1111/pala.12200. S2CID 129341868.
  2. [2]
    Briggs, D. E. G.; Erwin, D. H.; Collier, F. J. (1995), Fossils of the Burgess Shale, Washington: Smithsonian Inst Press, ISBN 1-56098-659-X, OCLC 231793738
  3. [3]
    Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. Bibcode:2006Palai..21..451C. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022. S2CID 53646959.


Stub icon

This prehistoric deuterostome-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Dalyia, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.