Enigmatic Putative Fossil Phoronid from Cambrian Utah

Name: Phylum Phoronida (?), Incertae sedis

Geological Time: Upper Middle Cambrian

Size (25.4mm=1 inch): 17 mm long on a 50 mm by 60 mm matrix

Fossil Site: Weeks Formation, House Range, Millard County, Utah

Code: UB232

Price: $335.00


Fossil PhoronidDescription: I have no idea what this enigmatic creature might be—in view of its resemblance to the spindle with skewers used to hold sweet corn, it has been colloquially termed the “corn cob holder”. The spikes at the end (which end, front or back?) are quite evident. Some think it resembles the Phoronid Iotuba chengjiangesis from the Chengjiang Biota of China. The Weeks Formation, one of the world's Burgess Shale-like Lagetstatt, continues to provide an astonishing diversity of problematic forms!.

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