TABLE 1. List of some Cambrian echinoderm examples with preserved stereom microstructure.
|
Cambrian taxa and ossicle type |
Preservation style |
Stereom type |
Locality and age |
Reference |
|
Theca of Cymbionites craticula (Eocrinoidea) |
Silica |
Labyrinthic, galleried |
Australia |
Smith (1982) |
|
Pelmatozoan columnals (Blastozoa) |
Iron oxides |
Galleried |
Bornholm |
Berg-Madsen (1986) |
|
Thecal and spine-like elements of unknown echinoderms |
Phosphates |
Labyrinthic, galleried |
Newfoundland |
Smith (1989) |
|
Stylocone and distal ossicles of Ceratocystis? (Stylophora) |
Iron oxides |
Labyrinthic, galleried |
Morocco |
Clausen and Smith (2005) |
|
Pelmatozoan columnals (Blastozoa) |
Iron oxides and silica |
Labyrinthic, fascicular, galleried |
Morocco |
Clausen and Smith (2008) |
|
Ambulacral plates of edrioasteroids and other plates of unknown echinoderms |
Phosphates and glauconites |
Labyrinthic, rectilinear, galleried |
Siberia |
Kouchinsky et al. (2011) |
|
Pelmatozoan columnals and ambulacral plates of Edrioasteroidea |
Phosphates |
Labyrinthic, fascicular, galleried |
Greenland |
Clausen and Peel (2012) |
|
Marginal and integument plates of Protocinctus (Cincta) |
Calcite |
Labyrinthic, fascicular, galleried, microperforate, imperforate |
Spain |
Present paper |
|
Thecal and ambulacral plates of Stromatocystites (Edrioasteroidea) |
Calcite |
Labyrinthic |
Morocco |
Present paper |
|
Thecal plates of Dibrachicystidae (Basal Rhombifera) |
Calcite |
Labyrinthic, galleried, microperforate, imperforate |
Spain |
Present paper |
