Turcutheca

Turcutheca is a Tommotian (Early Cambrian) genus of shelly fossil whose affinities are uncertain, generally considered as an orthothecid hyolith^[2] (which would make it a brachiopod,^[3] but also resembling the ellesmeroceratids (early cephalopods).^[1]

Turcutheca Temporal range: Early Cambrian[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Class:	†Hyolitha
Order:	†Orthothecida (?)
Family:	†Circothecidae
Genus:	†Turcutheca