Margaretia Explained

Margaretia is a frondose organism known from the middle Cambrian Burgess shale and the Kinzers Formation of Pennsylvania. Its fronds reached about 10 cm in length and are peppered with a range of length-parallel oval holes. It was originally interpreted as an alcyonarian coral. It was later reclassified as a green alga closely resembling modern Caulerpa by D.F. Satterthwait in her Ph.D. thesis in 1976,^[1] a finding supported by Conway Morris and Robison in 1988.^[2] More recently, it has been treated as an organic tube, that is used as nest of hemichordate Oesia.^[3]

External links

• Web site: 2011. Margaretia dorus. Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. https://web.archive.org/20201112025257/http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=78. 2020-11-12. dead.

Notes and References

1. Donna Fields Satterthwait, Paleobiology and Paleoecology of Middle Cambrian Algae from Western North America, Ph.D. Thesis University of California at Los Angeles, 1976.
2. S.Conway Morris and R.A. Robison, "More soft-bodied Animals and Algae from the Middle Cambrian of Utah and British Columbia", University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Paper 122, pages 8-11, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/3691
3. Nanglu. Karma. Caron. Jean-Bernard. Conway Morris. Simon. Cameron. Christopher B.. Cambrian suspension-feeding tubicolous hemichordates. BMC Biology. 14. 1. 56. 2016. 1741-7007. 10.1186/s12915-016-0271-4. 27383414. 4936055 . free .