Margaretia chamblessi Waggoner and Hagadorn 2004 (acorn worm)

Enteropneusta

Full reference: B. M. Waggoner and J. W. Hagadorn. 2004. An unmineralized alga from the Lower Cambrian of California, USA. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 231(1):67-83

Belongs to Margaretia according to B. M. Waggoner and J. W. Hagadorn 2004

Sister taxa: Oesia disjuncta, Margaretia ramosa, Margaretia stosei, Margaretia angustata

Type specimen: LACM 12855. Its type locality is LACM 17194, which is in a Dyeran marine siltstone/quartzite in the Latham Formation of California.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at LACM 17194

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