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A soft-bodied mollusc with radula from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale

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  • Jean-Bernard Caron

    (Royal Ontario Museum)

  • Amélie Scheltema

    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

  • Christoffer Schander

    (University of Bergen)

  • David Rudkin

    (Royal Ontario Museum)

Abstract

Odontogriphus omalus was originally described as a problematic non-biomineralized lophophorate organism. Here we re-interpret Odontogriphus based on 189 new specimens including numerous exceptionally well preserved individuals from the Burgess Shale collections of the Royal Ontario Museum. This additional material provides compelling evidence that the feeding apparatus in Odontogriphus is a radula of molluscan architecture comprising two primary bipartite tooth rows attached to a radular membrane and showing replacement by posterior addition. Further characters supporting molluscan affinity include a broad foot bordered by numerous ctenidia located in a mantle groove and a stiffened cuticular dorsum. 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 in the Neoproterozoic Ediacaran Period, providing support for the retention of a biomat-based grazing community from the late Precambrian Period until at least the Middle Cambrian.

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  • Jean-Bernard Caron & Amélie Scheltema & Christoffer Schander & David Rudkin, 2006. "A soft-bodied mollusc with radula from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale," Nature, Nature, vol. 442(7099), pages 159-163, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:442:y:2006:i:7099:d:10.1038_nature04894
    DOI: 10.1038/nature04894
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