Burgessia

Subphylum: incertae sedis
Genus: †
Species: †B. bella

Burgessia Walcott, 1912: 177

Type species: Burgessia bella Walcott, 1912, by original designation.

• Walcott, C.D. 1912. Middle Cambrian Branchiopoda, Malacostraca, Trilobita and Merostomata. In: Cambrian geology and paleontology. II. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 57(6): 145–228, pls. 24–34, text figs. 8–10. BHL. Reference page. 

• Cotton, T.J. & Braddy, S.J. 2004. The phylogeny of arachnomorph arthropods and the origin of the Chelicerata. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 94(3) [for 2003]: 169–193. DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300000596 . PDF. Reference page.  [considered as Arachnomorpha and placed as sister to all other Arachnomorpha]
• Hughes, C.P. 1975. Redescription of Burgessia bella from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, British Columbia. In: Martinsson, A. (ed.) Evolution and morphology of the Trilobita, Trilobitoidea and Merostomata. Proceedings of the Oslo Meeting, 1973. Fossils and Strata 4: 415–435. ISBN 82-00-04963-9. DOI: 10.18261/8200049639-1975-28 .
• Lin, J.-P. 2009. Function and hydrostatics in the telson of the Burgess Shale arthropod Burgessia. Biology Letters 5(3): 376–379. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0740 .
• Ortega-Hernández, J., Legg, D.A. & Braddy, S.J. 2012 (Online) 2013 (Print). The phylogeny of aglaspidid arthropods and the internal relationships within Artiopoda. Cladistics 29(1): 15–45. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00413.x . Reference page.  [placed as sister to Marrellomorpha + Crustacea]

• The Paleobiology Database Burgessia page accessed 4/20/09

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