Triplicatella Conway Morris, 1990

Skovsted, Christian B. & Peel, John S., 2007, Small shelly fossils from the argillaceous facies of the Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of western Newfoundland, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52 (4), pp. 729-748 : 741

Genus Triplicatella Conway Morris, 1990 Triplicatella peltata Skovsted, Peel, and Atkins, 2004 Fig. 5L.

2004 Triplicatella peltata sp. nov.; Skovsted et al. 2004: 1279, figs.

2P–S, 3G–O, 4A–C.

Holotype: MGUH 27078 from the Aftenstjernesø Formation of Løndal , western Peary Land, North Greenland.

Type species: Triplicatella disdoma Conway Morris, 1990 .

Material.— NFM F−453 and one additional specimen from sample JSP1982−01.

Discussion.— Skovsted et al. (2004) referred four specimens from the Forteau Formation of western Newfoundland to the problematic hyolith genus Triplicatella . Two specimens were considered to be opercula of T. peltata , a species also recognised in samples from North and North−East Greenland. The remaining two specimens (not illustrated here) are incompletely preserved opercula and were only tentatively referable to Triplicatella . No additional specimens from western Newfoundland have been found.

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Lower Cambrian of North Greenland, North−East Greenland and western Newfoundland.