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Prototreta flabellata
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian, 540–490  Ma
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P. flabellata
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Protreta flabellata

Prototreta flabellata is one of several species of brachiopod that occur in the Cambrian rocks of central and southern Montana, Nixon Gulch section, Three Forks Quad. [1] It is associated with the trilobite genus Ehmania near the base of the Middle Cambrian Meagher limestone. [2]

References

  1. ^ Xian-Guang, Hou; Siveter, David J.; Siveter, Derek J.; Aldridge, Richard J.; Pei-Yun, Cong; Gabbott, Sarah E.; Xiao-Ya, Ma; Purnell, Mark A.; Williams, Mark (2017-03-08). The Cambrian fossils of Chengjiang, China : the flowering of early animal life. Hou, Xianguang. (Second ed.). Chichester, West Sussex. ISBN  9781118896310. OCLC  970396735.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)
  2. ^ Bell, W. Charles (1941). "Cambrian Brachiopoda from Montana". Journal of Paleontology. 15 (3): 193–255. JSTOR  1298891.