Marrella splendens

Marrella splendens est arthropus exstinctum familiae Marrellidarum. Quod a Carolo Doolittle Walcott anno 1909 inventum est ac cuius fossilia communia sunt in schisto Burgessensi aevi Cambrii Columbiae Britannicae.

Fossilia Marrellae splendentis apud Museum Confluentium Lugduni ostentata

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Animalia — Arthropoda

Classis : Marrellomorpha 
Ordo : Marrellida 
Familia : Marrellidae 
Walcott, 1912
Genus : Marrella 
Walcott, 1912
Species : M. splendens 

Marrella splendens 
Walcott, 1912  

Palaeontologia

510–470 m.a.: Cambrium medium > Ordovicium inferius

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Bibliographia

• García-Bellido, Diego C., Collins, Desmond H. (2006). A new study of Marrella splendens (Arthropoda, Marrellomorpha) from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences: 43: 721-742.
• Haug, J. T., Castellani, C., Haug, C., Waloszek, D., Maas, A. (2012). A Marrella−like arthropod from the Cambrian of Australia: a new link between "Orsten"−type and Burgess Shale assemblages. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica: 58: 629–639.
• Walcott, C. D. (1912). Middle Cambrian Branchiopoda, Malacostraca, Trilobita and Merostomata. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections: 57: 145-228, praecipue 192-193.
• Whittington, H. B. (1971). "Redescription of Marrella splendens (Trilobitoidea) from the Burgess Shale, Middle Cambrian, British Columbia". Bulletin – Geological Survey of Canada. Geological Survey of Canada. 209: 1–24.

Nexus interni

• Austromarrella klausmuelleri