Selkirkia Walcott 1911 (priapulid worm)

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

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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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