Oesia
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| Oesia Temporal range:
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| File:Oesia disjuncta-tube.jpg | |
| Reconstruction of Oesia living in organic tube Margaretia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Hemichordata |
| Genus: | †Oesia Walcott, 1911 |
| Species: | †O. disjuncta
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| †Oesia disjuncta Walcott, 1911
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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]
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