Odontogriphus - Wikipedia
Odontogriphus (from Greek: ὀδούς odoús, 'tooth' and Greek: γρῖφος grîphos, 'riddle') is a genus of soft-bodied animals known from middle Cambrian Lagerstätte. Reaching as much as 12.5 …
A soft-bodied mollusc with radula from the Middle Cambrian Burgess ...
Jul 13, 2006 · Odontogriphus omalus is one of the most enigmatic fossils from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale 2. This animal, known originally from a single, incomplete and poorly …
Odontogriphus omalus - The Burgess Shale
Odontogriphus omalus (ROM 57712). The largest known specimen of the species (front to the top) on top of large sheets of the cyanobacterium Morania confluens . Specimen length = 125 …
Odontogriphus has a radula similar to Wiwaxia corrugata but lacks a scleritome. We interpret these animals to be members of an early stem-group mollusc lineage that probably originated …
Mouthparts of the Burgess Shale fossils Odontogriphus and …
Oct 10, 2012 · Taking Odontogriphus and Wiwaxia to be more basal than the Aplacophora, the ancestral mollusc bore a functionally flexoglossate, unipartite radula with multiple regions of …
A soft-bodied mollusc with radula from the Middle Cambrian
Jul 13, 2006 · Odontogriphus omalus was originally described as a problematic non-biomineralized lophophorate organism. Here we re-interpret Odontogriphus based on 189 new …
Odontogriphus omalus - ScienceBlogs
Jul 12, 2006 · It was small (less than a 5 inches long), a flattened oval with few striking features, with a small mouth containing chevron shaped rows of mineralized teeth. This structure is …
A ghost with a bite - Nature
Jul 12, 2006 · Odontogriphus omalus is a star in the firmament of fossil oddities from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shales of Canada, looking as it does like a cross between an airbed and a …
Odontogriphus@Paleozoic Aquarium
Odontogriphus omalus is a menber of the Burgess Shale faulna, a soft-bodied animal of the Middle Cambrian. It is considered a member of an early stem-group Mollusc 2, 3).
A soft-bodied mollusc with radula from the Middle Cambrian Burgess ...
This additional material provides compelling evidence that the feeding apparatus in Odontogriphus is a radula of molluscan architecture comprising two primary bipartite tooth …