Nasakia

Nasakia
Temporal range:
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

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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Marine Species Traits - Nasakia Streng, Butler, Peel, Garwood & Caron, 2016 †". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2026-03-12.