Salterellidae Explained

Salterellidae is a family of enigmatic fossil genera from the Early to Middle Cambrian. It was originally created for the genus Salterella by Charles Doolittle Walcott, who placed it in the group Pteropoda. It was later placed in Agmata, a proposed extinct phylum by Ellis L. Yochelson which is accepted by some other authors.^[1]

Genera

• †Ellisell Peel & Berg-Madsen, 1988^[2]
  • †Ellisell yochelsoni Peel & Berg-Madsen, 1988
• †Salterella Billings, 1861^[3]
  • †Salterella conulata Clark, 1924
  • †Salterella maccullochi (Murchison, 1859)
• †Volborthella Schmidt, 1888^[4]
  • †Volborthella tenuis Schmidt, 1888

Notes and References

1. 10.1080/11035897.2016.1227365. Anatase and Hadimopanella selection by Salterella from the Kap Troedsson formation (Cambrian Series 2) of North Greenland. GFF. 139. 1. 70–74. 2016. Peel. John S.. 132731070.
2. Peel. J. S.. Berg-Madsen. V.. 1988. A new salterellid (Phylum Agmata) from the upper Middle Cambrian of Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark. 37. 75–82. 10.37570/bgsd-1988-37-07 .
3. Billings. E.H.. 1861. On some new or little known species of lower Silurian fossils from the Potsdam Group (Primordial zone). Palaeozoic Fossils. 1. 1. 1–18.
4. Schmidt. F.. 1888. Über eine neuentdeckte untercambrische Fauna in Estland. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg. 7. 36. 2. 1–27, 2 pls.