Kutorginates are early rhynchonelliform brachiopods.
Their annulated pedicles emerge from the apex of their pedicle valve, but they also have a large opening between the valves (from which the pedicle has, at various times, been alleged to emerge from).
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The pedicles are much larger than the apical opening.][
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Included genera
''Kutorgina''
''Kutorgina'' has a concavo-convex shell with the smaller brachial valve dished in and the larger pedicle valve broadly arched. The brachial valve has a rather prominent interarea at the back which is curved over by the prominent beak at the back of the pedicle valve.
It includes the species ''Kutorgina elanica'' Malakhovskaya, 2013 and ''K. chengjiangensis'' Zhang et al. 2007.
K. chengjiangensis preserves soft anatomy - pedicle, lophophore
The lophophore () is a characteristic feeding organ possessed by four major groups of animals: the Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Hyolitha, and Phoronida, which collectively constitute the protostome group Lophophorata.[Middle Cambrian
Middle or The Middle may refer to:
* Centre (geometry), the point equally distant from the outer limits.
Places
* Middle (sheading), a subdivision of the Isle of Man
* Middle Bay (disambiguation)
* Middle Brook (disambiguation)
* Middle Creek (di ...]
(~) Burgess Shale. 133 specimens of ''Kutorginata'' are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.25% of the community.[
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References
Kutorginata
* Moore, Lalicker, and Fischer. Invertebrate Fossils, ch 6 Brachiopoda. McGraw-Hill 1952.
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Prehistoric brachiopod genera
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