Marrellomorpha

Marrellomorpha
Temporal range:
Middle Cambrian - Early Devonian,
Life restoration of Marrella from the Burgess Shale
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: †Marrellomorpha
Beurlen, 1930
Subgroups
  • Acercostraca
  • Marrellida

Marrellomorpha are an extinct group of arthropods known from the Cambrian to the Early Devonian. They lacked mineralised hard parts, so are only known from areas of exceptional preservation, limiting their fossil distribution. The best known member is Marrella, with thousands of specimens found in the Cambrian aged Burgess Shale of Canada.

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