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<h2 id="taxonomy">Taxonomy</h2> <p>Five families are recognized:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>Tommotiidae Missarzhevsky in Rozanov <i>et al.</i>, 1969 </li><li><a href="/facts/Tannuolinidae/FPWPTekr">Tannuolinidae</a> Fonin and Smirnova, 1967 </li><li>Sunnaginiidae Landing, 1984 </li><li>Kennardiidae Laurie, 1986 </li><li>Lapworthellidae Missarzhevsky in Rozanov and Missarzhevsky, 1966 </li></ul> <table><tbody><tr><th>Taxon</th><th>Relationship<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></th></tr><tr><td><i>Kulparina</i></td><td>Stem <a href="/facts/Paterinata/1V7egoDo">paterinid</a></td></tr><tr><td><i>Paterimitra</i></td><td>Stem paterinid</td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Askepasma/kMdooYKw">Askepasma</a></i></td><td>Stem (or crown?) paterinid</td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Tannuolina/FPWPTekr">Tannuolina</a></i></td><td>Stem <a href="/facts/Linguliformea/Qk83qSHu">linguliform</a></td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Micrina/Fn2RzvHq">Micrina</a></i></td><td>Stem Linguliform</td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Mickwitzia/as2IC5G9">Mickwitzia</a></i></td><td>Stem (or crown?) linguliform</td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Camenella/cs9JvqCs">Camenella</a></i></td><td>Stem <a href="/facts/Brachiozoa/HHooSupM">brachiozoan</a></td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Dailyatia/cs9JvqCs">Dailyatia</a></i></td><td>Stem brachiozoan</td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Lapworthella/cs9JvqCs">Lapworthella</a></i></td><td>Stem brachiozoan</td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Eccentrotheca/bw8wG5oH">Eccentrotheca</a></i></td><td>Stem phoronid or brachiopod</td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Wufengella/oX17GfR1">Wufengella</a></i></td><td>Stem lophophorate</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Holmer LE, Skovsted CB, Brock GA, Valentine JL, Paterson JR (June 2008). "The Early Cambrian tommotiid Micrina, a sessile bivalved stem group brachiopod". Biology Letters. 4 (6): 724–728. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2008.0277. PMC 2614141. PMID 18577500. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614141" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614141</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Taylor, Christopher (2008-06-27). "Back to the Scleritome - Tommotiids Revealed!". Catalogue of Organisms. Retrieved 2008-07-23. <a href="http://catalogue-of-organisms.blogspot.com/2008/06/back-to-scleritome-tommotiids-revealed.html" target="_blank">http://catalogue-of-organisms.blogspot.com/2008/06/back-to-scleritome-tommotiids-revealed.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Skovsted CB, Brock GA, Paterson JR, Holmer LE, Budd GE (February 2008). "The scleritome of Eccentrotheca from the Lower Cambrian of South Australia: Lophophorate affinities and implications for tommotiid phylogeny". Geology. 36 (2): 171–174. Bibcode:2008Geo....36..171S. doi:10.1130/G24385A.1. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Bengtson, S. (2004). "Early skeletal fossils". In Lipps, J.H.; Waggoner, B.M. (eds.). Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Biological Revolutions (PDF). The Paleontological Society Papers. Vol. 10. pp. 67–78. doi:10.1017/S1089332600002345. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-10-03. Retrieved 2008-07-18. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081003122817/http://www.nrm.se/download/18.4e32c81078a8d9249800021554/Bengtson2004ESF.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20081003122817/http://www.nrm.se/download/18.4e32c81078a8d9249800021554/Bengtson2004ESF.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Skovsted CB (2016). "A silicified tommotiid from the lower Cambrian of Greenland" (PDF). Bulletin of Geosciences. 91 (3): 553–559. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1609. ISSN 1214-1119. <a href="http://www.geology.cz/bulletin/fulltext/1609_Skovsted_161125.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.geology.cz/bulletin/fulltext/1609_Skovsted_161125.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Holmer LE, Skovsted CB, Larsson C, Brock GA, Zhang Z (2011). "First record of a bivalved larval shell in Early Cambrian tommotiids and its phylogenetic significance". Palaeontology. 54 (2): 235–239. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.01030.x. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1475-4983.2010.01030.x" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1475-4983.2010.01030.x</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Skovsted CB, Brock GA, Paterson JR, Holmer LE, Budd GE (February 2008). "The scleritome of Eccentrotheca from the Lower Cambrian of South Australia: Lophophorate affinities and implications for tommotiid phylogeny". Geology. 36 (2): 171–174. Bibcode:2008Geo....36..171S. doi:10.1130/G24385A.1. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Skovsted CB (2016). "A silicified tommotiid from the lower Cambrian of Greenland" (PDF). Bulletin of Geosciences. 91 (3): 553–559. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1609. ISSN 1214-1119. <a href="http://www.geology.cz/bulletin/fulltext/1609_Skovsted_161125.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.geology.cz/bulletin/fulltext/1609_Skovsted_161125.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Skovsted CB, Holmer LE, Larsson CM, Högström AE, Brock GA, Topper TP, Balthasar U, Stolk SP, Paterson JR (May 2009). "The scleritome of Paterimitra: an Early Cambrian stem group brachiopod from South Australia". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 276 (1662): 1651–1656. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1655. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 2660981. PMID 19203919. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2660981" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2660981</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Guo, Jin; Parry, Luke A.; Vinther, Jakob; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Wei, Fan; Zhao, Jun; Zhao, Yang; Béthoux, Olivier; Lei, Xiangtong; Chen, Ailin; Hou, Xianguang; Chen, Taimin; Cong, Peiyun (September 2022). "A Cambrian tommotiid preserving soft tissues reveals the metameric ancestry of lophophorates". Current Biology. 32 (21): 4769–4778.e2. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.011. S2CID 252564106. <a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982222014555" target="_blank">https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982222014555</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Guo, Jin; Parry, Luke A.; Vinther, Jakob; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Wei, Fan; Zhao, Jun; Zhao, Yang; Béthoux, Olivier; Lei, Xiangtong; Chen, Ailin; Hou, Xianguang; Chen, Taimin; Cong, Peiyun (September 2022). "A Cambrian tommotiid preserving soft tissues reveals the metameric ancestry of lophophorates". Current Biology. 32 (21): 4769–4778.e2. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.011. S2CID 252564106. <a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982222014555" target="_blank">https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982222014555</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Skovsted CB, Brock GA, Paterson JR, Holmer LE, Budd GE (February 2008). "The scleritome of Eccentrotheca from the Lower Cambrian of South Australia: Lophophorate affinities and implications for tommotiid phylogeny". Geology. 36 (2): 171–174. Bibcode:2008Geo....36..171S. doi:10.1130/G24385A.1. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Devaere L, Clausen S, Monceret É, Vizcaïno D, Vachard D, Genge M (2014). "The tommotiid Kelanella and associated fauna from the early Cambrian of southern Montagne Noire (France): Implications for camenellan phylogeny". Palaeontology. 57 (5): 979–1002. doi:10.1111/pala.12098. S2CID 129242398. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fpala.12098" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fpala.12098</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Skovsted CB, Brock GA, Topper TP, Paterson JR, Holmer LE (2011). "Scleritome construction, biofacies, biostratigraphy and systematics of the tommotiid Eccentrotheca helenia sp. nov. from the Early Cambrian of South Australia". Palaeontology. 54 (2): 253–286. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.01031.x. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>