Cambrorhytium

Cambrorhytium
Temporal range: Chengjiang - Burgess Shale
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Staurozoa
Order: Conulatae
Clade: Conulariida
Genus: Cambrorhytium
(Walcott 1908) Conway Morris and Robison, 1988
Species
  • C. elongatum
  • C. fragilis Walcott 1911
  • C. gracilis Chang et al. 2018
  • C. major Walcott 1908 (type)

Cambrorhytium is an enigmatic fossil genus known from the Latham Shale (California), and the Chengjiang (China) and Burgess Shale (Canadian rockies) lagerstätte. 350 specimens of Cambrorhytium are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.7% of the community.

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