†Petasotheca minuta Landing and Bartowski 1996
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Full reference: E. Landing and K.E. Bartowski. 1996. Oldest shelly fossils from the Taconic Allochthon and late Early Cambrian sea-levels in eastern Laurentia. Journal of Paleontology 70(5):741-761
Belongs to Petasotheca according to E. Landing and K.E. Bartowski 1996
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NYSM 15555, a shell. Its type locality is E-Bar-4.0 - Keeler's Eskimo Bar ice cream stand, which is in a Dyeran slope siltstone in the Browns Pond Formation of New York.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cambrian of United States (3: New York collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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