Selkirkiimorpha - Selkirkiidae
Synonym: Paraselkirkia Luo and Hu 1999
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: Selkirkiidae according to D. Wang et al. 2021
See also Bambach et al. 2007, Conway Morris 1977, Conway Morris and Robison 1988, Nanglu and Ortega-Hernández 2024, Sepkoski 2002 and Walcott 1911
Sister taxon: Sullulika
Subtaxa: Selkirkia columbia Selkirkia fragilis Selkirkia major Selkirkia sinica Selkirkia spencei Selkirkia transita Selkirkia tsering Selkirkia willoughbyi
Type: Selkirkia columbia
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Morocco (1 collection)
• Cambrian of Canada (2: Brithish Columbia, British Columbia), China (22), United States (5: Nevada, Pennsylvania, Utah)
• Delamaran of Canada (27: British Columbia), United States (4: Idaho, Utah)
Total: 61 collections including 78 occurrences
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