Oesia Temporal range: | |
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Reconstruction of Oesia living in organic tube Margaretia | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Hemichordata |
Genus: | † Oesia Walcott, 1911 |
Species: | †O. disjuncta |
Binomial name | |
†Oesia disjuncta Walcott, 1911 |
Oesia disjuncta is a monospecific genus of hemichordate known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. [1] 1147 specimens of Oesia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 2.18% of the community. [2] It was previously compared to the chaetognaths, [3] annelids and tunicates. [4]