Synonyms: Petalilium Luo and Hu 1999 [objective synonym], Petalium Luo and Hu 1999 [objective synonym], Vetustovermis Glaessner 1979
Full reference: S. Conway Morris. 1976. Nectocaris pteryx, a new organism from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Mittheilungen 12:703-713
Parent taxon: Nectocarididae according to M. R. Smith 2013
See also Bambach et al. 2007, Chen et al. 2005, Conway Morris 1976, Sepkoski 2002 and Smith and Caron 2010
Sister taxon: Nectocotis
Subtaxa: Nectocaris pteryx Petalilium latus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Delamaran of Canada (3: British Columbia collections)
• Cambrian of Australia (1), China (7)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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