Kutorginata - Kutorginida - Nisusiidae
Alternative combination: Orthisina alberta
Full reference: C. D. Walcott. 1889. Description of new genera and species of fossils from the Middle Cambrian. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 11(738):441-446
Belongs to Nisusia according to L. E. Holmer et al. 2019
See also Walcott 1889 and Walcott 1905
Sister taxa: Nisusia ancauchensis, Nisusia borealis, Nisusia cloudi, Nisusia festinata, Nisusia fulleri, Nisusia howelli, Nisusia kotujensis, Nisusia minussensis, Nisusia multicostata, Nisusia nasuta, Nisusia pospelovi
Type specimen: Its type locality is 14s. Trilobite Bed, Mount Stephen, which is in a Delamaran deep-water shale in the Burgess Shale Formation of Canada.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at 14s. Trilobite Bed, Mount Stephen
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