Named By: | Charles Walcott in 1911 |
Time Period: | Middle Cambrian |
Location: | Canada, Alberta - Burgess Shale |
Size: | Up to 10 centimetres long |
Diet: | Uncertain, but possibly a filter or deposit feeder |
Fossil(s): | Hundreds of individuals preserved flat upon shale |
Classification: | | Deuterostomia | Vetulicolia | |
Banffia is a genus of animals described from Middle Cambrian fossils. The genus commemorates Banff, Alberta, near where the first fossil specimens were discovered. Its placement in higher taxa is controversial.