TABLE 1. List of species that have been assigned to Mellopegma, including those considered here to belong to other genera.
 
 

Species assigned to Mellopegma

Age and location

Notes

 

M. georginense Runnegar and Jell, 1976

middle Cambrian, Australia

type species; from Gowers Formation

 

 

late early Cambrian, U.S.A.

described by Landing et al. 2002

 

M. simesi (MacKinnon, 1985) comb. nov.

middle Cambrian, Australia, and New Zealand

assigned here; originally Anabarella

 

M. nana Zhou and Xiao, 1984

early Cambrian, China

transferred to Figurina by Parkhaev in Gravestock et al. 2001

 

M. indecorum (Missarzhevsky in Rozanov et al., 1969)

early Cambrian, Russia

previously in Anabarella

 

M. uslonicum Parkhaev, 2004

early Cambrian, Russia

 

 

M. schizocheras sp. nov.

middle Cambrian, Australia

co-occurs with M. georginense and M. simesi

 

M. rostratum Zhou and Xiao, 1984

early Cambrian, China

transferred to Mackinnonia by Parkhaev in Gravestock et al. 2001