Name:
Microdictyon.
Phonetic: My-kro-dik-ton.
Named By: Bengtson, Matthews & Missarzhevsky
- 1986.
Classification: Animalia, Onychophora.
Species: M. effusum (type),
M. anus, M. chinense, M. cuneum, M. depressum, M.
fuchengense, M. jinshaense, M. montezumaensis, M.
rhomboidale, M. robisoni, M. rozanovi, M. sinicum, M.
sphaeroides, M. tenuiporatum.
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Up to 70-80 millimetres.
Known locations: Australia, Canada, China,
Greenland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Mexico, Russia, Turke,
United Kingdom, USA.
Time period: Early Cambrian.
Fossil representation: Multiple individuals
preserved flat on slabs.
Microdictyon
is a genus of Cambrian worm-like animal that lived on sea floors across
the world.
Further reading
- Early Cambrian lobopodian sclerites and associated fossils from
Kazakhstan. - Palaeontology. 46: 93. - J. dzik - 2003.
- New Cambrian lobopods and chaetognaths of the Siberian Platform.
- Paleontological Journal. 40 (3): 234–243. - Yu E.
Demidenko - 2006.
- Development and Diversification of Trunk Plates of the Lower
Cambrian Lobopodians. - Palaeontology. 50 (2): 401. -
X-G. Zhang & R. J. Aldridge - 2007.
- Small shelly fossils from the Montezuman–Delamaran of the Great
Basin in Nevada and California. - Journal of Paleontology. 91
(5): 883–901. - Thomas Wotte & Frederick A.
Sundberg - 2017.