- is
possible that many
tommotiids need
redescribing as
sessile tube-dwellers.
Eccentrotheca and
other similar sessile tommotiids were
likely filter feeders...
- on the
affinities of
tommotiids: they are now
being regarded as stem-group brachiopods. One
crucial fossil linking the
tommotiids with
brachiopods is Micrina...
- of the Early-Cambrian
tommotiids, and a new
hypothesis that
brachiopods evolved from
tommotiids. The "armor mail" of
tommotiids was well-known but not...
-
grounds they have been ****essed as deuterostomes.
Fossil finds of the "
tommotiid"
Wufengella suggest that they
evolved from worm-like
animals that resembled...
-
Brachiopoda and Phoronida. It also
includes their ancestors, the
extinct tommotiids.
Helmkampf M,
Bruchhaus I,
Hausdorf B (August 2008). "Phylogenomic analyses...
- Ailin; Hou, Xianguang; Chen, Taimin; Cong,
Peiyun (2022). "A
Cambrian tommotiid preserving soft
tissues reveals the
metameric ancestry of lophophorates"...
-
elements of
unknown animals, the
first archaeocyathids, brachiopods,
tommotiids and others. Also soft-bodied
extant phyla such as comb jellies, scalidophorans...
-
Micrina is an
extinct genus of
tommotiids with
affinities to brachiopods.
Micrina can be
considered a stem
group brachiopod based on its
larval s****....
-
Sunnaginia is a
tommotiid known from the
Comely Limestone and elsewhere, and
appears to
represent one of the
closest relatives to the
brachiopod crown...
- halkieria) are
unrelated to Wiwaxia, but are
instead related to the
camenellan tommotiids and thus
belong in the
brachiopod stem lineage.
Paleontology portal Burgess...
