Mongolitubulus is a genus of small shelly fossils from the Lower to Middle Cambrian, found worldwide including on every continent, even Antarctica. It consists of slender, pointed, slightly curved conical spines up to 2 centimeters long, ornamented with short rhomboid processes spiraling around the surface in a regular mosaic pattern. One species, Mongolitubulus henrikseni, has been identified as spines from a bradoriid arthropod, but the identity of other species, including Mongolitubulus squamifer, remains unresolved, and the genus may ultimately prove to be a form taxon uniting spines from more than one kind of animal, possibly including trilobites or hallucigeniid lobopodians.
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Mongolitubulus is a form genus encapsulating a range of ornamented conical small shelly fossils of the Cambrian period.
Wikidata: Mongolitubulus
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