Nasakia
Extinct genus of brachiopods
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Nasakia is a genus of Naukatid brachiopod known from Cambrian strata. There is a species called Nasakia thulensis.[1] It was found by Streng, Butler, Peel, Garwood and Caron in 2016. and was a marine organism during the Miaolangian stage of the Cambrian, about 508 million years ago.[2]
- Streng, Michael; Butler, Aodhán D.; Peel, John S.; Garwood, Russell J.; Caron, Jean-Bernard; Álvaro, Javier (March 2016). "A new family of Cambrian rhynchonelliformean brachiopods (Order Naukatida) with an aberrant coral-like morphology". Palaeontology. 59 (2): 269–293. Bibcode:2016Palgy..59..269S. doi:10.1111/pala.12226.
- "Marine Species Traits - Nasakia Streng, Butler, Peel, Garwood & Caron, 2016 †". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2026-03-12.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | †Obolellata |
| Order: | †Naukatida |
| Family: | †Tomteluvidae |
| Genus: | †Nasakia |
| Species: | †N. thulensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Nasakia thulensis Streng et al 2016 | |
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