†family Ottoidae Walcott 1911 (priapulid worm)

Archaeopriapulida - Ottoidae

Full reference: C. D. Walcott. 1911. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology II: No.5--Middle Cambrian Annelids. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 57(5):109-144

Parent taxon: Archaeopriapulida according to S. Conway Morris 1977

See also Walcott 1911

Sister taxa: Ancalagonidae, Fieldiidae, Lecythioscopa, Miskoidae, Scolecofurca, Singuuriqia

Subtaxa: Ottoia

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Type: Ottoia

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Ordovician of China (1 collection)

• Cambrian of Canada (28: Alberta, British Columbia), China (1), United States (7: Nevada, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont)

• Solvan of United States (1: Nevada)

Total: 38 collections including 39 occurrences

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