Brachiopods: origin and early history

DAT Harper, LE Popov, LE Holmer - Palaeontology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Despite many major advances in recent years, three key challenges remain in bringing
clarity to the early history of the phylum:(1) identifying the origin, morphology and life modes …

Survival on a soft seafloor: life strategies of brachiopods from the Cambrian Burgess Shale

TP Topper, LC Strotz, LE Holmer, JB Caron - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Understanding the structure of benthic communities in the Cambrian remains a major
challenge. Direct evidence for species interrelationships is rare and therefore past …

The scleritome of Eccentrotheca from the Lower Cambrian of South Australia: Lophophorate affinities and implications for tommotiid phylogeny

CB Skovsted, GA Brock, JR Paterson… - …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The first partially articulated scleritome of a tommotiid, Eccentrotheca sp., is described from
the Lower Cambrian of South Australia. The Eccentrotheca scleritome consists of individual …

[PDF][PDF] Linguliformean and craniiformean brachiopods of the Ordovician (Třenice to Dobrotivá Formations) of the Barrandian, Bohemia

M Mergl - 2002 - researchgate.net
A revision of linguliformean and craniiformean brachiopods of the Třenice, Mílina, Klabava,
Šárka and Dobrotivá Formations confirms the presence of 61 species of the order Lingulida …

Chemico‐structural evolution of linguloid brachiopod shells

M Cusack, A Williams, JO Buckman - Palaeontology, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Chemico‐structures of shells representing all families presently assigned to the Linguloidea
have undergone significant transformations since the Early Cambrian. Superficial …

Earliest ontogeny of early Cambrian acrotretoid brachiopods—first evidence for metamorphosis and its implications

Z Zhang, LE Popov, LE Holmer, Z Zhang - BMC evolutionary biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Our understanding of the ontogeny of Palaeozoic brachiopods has changed
significantly during the last two decades. However, the micromorphic acrotretoids have …

Early Cambrian brachiopods from north‐east Greenland

CB Skovsted, LE Holmer - Palaeontology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
A diverse assemblage of late Early Cambrian brachiopods is described from the Bastion and
Ella Island formations of North‐East Greenland. The fauna includes nine species …

The scleritome of Paterimitra: an Early Cambrian stem group brachiopod from South Australia

CB Skovsted, LE Holmer… - … of the Royal …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Early Cambrian tommotiids are problematic fossil metazoans with external
organophosphatic sclerites that have been considered to be basal members of the …

Homologous skeletal secretion in tommotiids and brachiopods

U Balthasar, CB Skovsted, LE Holmer… - …, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Tommotiids are distinctive components of the early Cambrian small shelly fauna, almost
invariably represented by isolated phosphatic sclerites derived from a multielement …

[HTML][HTML] The oldest Cambrian trilobite–brachiopod association in South China

Z Zhang, MG Pour, LE Popov, LE Holmer, F Chen… - Gondwana …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Limestones of the Xihaoping Member of the Dengying Formation in the Xiaoyangba
section, South China, yield the oldest known Cambrian brachiopod–trilobite association. In …