Mickwitzia

Mickwitzia
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: Brachiozoa
Stem group: Brachiopoda
Family: †Mickwitziidae
Goryanskii, 1969
Genus: †Mickwitzia
Schmidt, 1888
Species
  • M. monilifera (type) (Linnarsson, 1869)
  • M. formosa (Wiman, 1902)
  • M. muralensis Walcott, 1913
  • M. lochmanae McMenamin, 1992
  • M. multipunctata McMenamin, 1992

Mickwitziids are a Cambrian group of shelly fossils with originally phosphatic valves, belonging to the Brachiopod stem group, and exemplified by the genus Mickwitzia – the other genera are Heliomedusa (a possible junior synonym of Mickwitzia?) and Setatella. The family Mickwitziidae is conceivably paraphyletic with respect to certain crown-group brachiopods.

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