Salterellidae

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Salterellidae is a family of enigmatic fossil genera from the Early to Middle Cambrian. It was originally created for the genus Salterella by Charles Doolittle Walcott, who placed it in the group Pteropoda.^[1] It was later placed in Agmata, a proposed extinct phylum by Ellis L. Yochelson which is accepted by some other authors.^[3]

Salterellidae Temporal range: Early Cambrian–Middle Cambrian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Salterella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	†Agmata (?)
Family:	†Salterellidae Walcott, 1886^[1]
Type genus
Salterella Billings, 1861
Genera
†Ellisell Peel & Berg-Madsen, 1988 †Salterella Billings, 1861 †Volborthella Schmidt, 1888
Synonyms^[2]
†Volborthellidae Kiaer, 1916

†Ellisell Peel & Berg-Madsen, 1988^[4]
- †Ellisell yochelsoni Peel & Berg-Madsen, 1988
†Salterella Billings, 1861^[5]
- †Salterella conulata Clark, 1924
- †Salterella maccullochi (Murchison, 1859)
†Volborthella Schmidt, 1888^[6]
- †Volborthella tenuis Schmidt, 1888

^ ^a ^b Charles Doolittle Walcott (1886). Second contribution to the studies on the Cambrian faunas of North America. Vol. 30 of Geological Survey bulletin. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 1–369.
^ Yochelson, Ellis L.; Kisselev, Gennadii N. (2003). "Early Cambrian Salterella and Volborthella (Phylum Agmata) re-evaluated". Lethaia. 36 (1): 8–20. Bibcode:2003Letha..36....8Y. doi:10.1080/00241160310001254.
^ Peel, John S. (2016). "Anatase and Hadimopanella selection by Salterella from the Kap Troedsson formation (Cambrian Series 2) of North Greenland". GFF. 139 (1): 70–74. doi:10.1080/11035897.2016.1227365. S2CID 132731070.
^ Peel, J. S.; Berg-Madsen, V. (1988). "A new salterellid (Phylum Agmata) from the upper Middle Cambrian of Denmark" (PDF). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark. 37: 75–82. doi:10.37570/bgsd-1988-37-07.
^ Billings, E.H. (1861). "On some new or little known species of lower Silurian fossils from the Potsdam Group (Primordial zone)". Palaeozoic Fossils, containing descriptions and figures of new or little known species of organic remains from the Silurian rocks, 1861–1865. Vol. 1. Montreal, London, New York & Paris: Dawson Brothers & Ballière. pp. 1–18.
^ Schmidt, F. (1888). "Über eine neuentdeckte untercambrische Fauna in Estland". Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg. 7. 36 (2): 1–27, 2 pls.