Data from: The macro- and microfossil record of the middle Cambrian priapulid Ottoia

• Main Authors: Smith, Martin R., Harvey, Thomas H. P., Butterfield, Nicholas J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Small Carbonaceous Fossils; British Columbia; Burgess; Canada; Northwest Territories; Walcott
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.64803; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.km109

The stem-group priapulid Ottoia Walcott, 1911, is the most abundant worm in the mid-Cambrian Burgess Shale, but has not been unambiguously demonstrated elsewhere. High-resolution electron and optical microscopy of macroscopic Burgess Shale specimens reveals the detailed anatomy of its robust hooks,...