Paropsonema

Paropsonema
Temporal range: Chengjiang
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Stem-group: Ambulacraria
clade: †Cambroernida
Family: †Eldoniidae
clade: †Paropsonemida
Genus: †Paropsonema

Paropsonema is a discoidal animal known from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota[1] and classified with the eldoniids.[2]

References

  1. ^ Zhu, M. (2002). "Révision des animaux discoïdes cambriens Stellostomites eumorphus et Pararotadiscus guizhouensis de Chine du Sud". Geobios 35 (2): 165–185. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(02)00025-6.  edit
  2. ^ Caron, J.; Conway Morris, S.; Shu, D.; Soares, D. (2010). Soares, Daphne. ed. "Tentaculate fossils from the Cambrian of Canada (British Columbia) and China (Yunnan) interpreted as primitive deuterostomes". PloS one 5 (3): e9586. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009586. PMC 2833208. PMID 20221405. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2833208.  edit