Metaspriggina

Metaspriggina is a genus of chordate initially known from two specimens in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and 44 specimens found in 2012 at the Marble Canyon bed in Kootenay National Park.

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Vinony's link graph records 26 inbound references to Metaspriggina, and connects out to Vertebrata, Chordata and Gnathostomata.

Vinony files it under Burgess Shale fossils, Cambrian chordates and Cambrian genus extinctions.

Vinony links it to 11 Wikipedia language editions.

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Parent taxon: Chordata
Image: Metaspriggina2.png

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taxon rank: genus
taxon name: Metaspriggina
Commons category: Metaspriggina

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Metaspriggina is a genus of chordate initially known from two specimens in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and 44 specimens found in 2012 at the Marble Canyon bed in Kootenay National Park.

thumb|left|Life reconstruction of Metaspriggina walcotti

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Metaspriggina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.