Oesia
Animal genus from the Burgess Shale
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Oesia is a genus of hemichordate known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.[1] It is monospecific, containing only the species Oesia disjuncta. 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]
| 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 | |
