Dawsonia campanulata is an organic-walled Palaeozoic organism of unknown affinity.[1][2] It resembles a shell or purse.[2]

Dawsonia campanulata
Temporal range: Silurian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Genus:
Dawsonia (preoccupied name)

Nicholson, 1873
Species:
D. campanulata
Binomial name
Dawsonia campanulata
Nicholson, 1873

References edit

  1. ^ Page, A.; Gabbott, S.E.; Wilby, P.R.; Zalasiewicz, J.A. (2008). "Ubiquitous Burgess Shale–style "clay templates" in low-grade metamorphic mudrocks". Geology. 36 (11): 855. Bibcode:2008Geo....36..855P. doi:10.1130/G24991A.1.
  2. ^ a b Page, A.; Wilby, P.R.; Mellish, C.J.T.; Williams, M.; Zalasiewicz, J.A. (2009). "Dawsonia Nicholson: Linguliform brachiopods, crustacean tail-pieces and a problematicum rather than graptolite ovarian vesicles" (PDF). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 99 (3–4): 251. doi:10.1017/S175569100900704X. S2CID 64875458.